# Fractures at FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE
> OSHA SIR `2017032798` · 3/28/2017 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE
- **Location:** 805 Camden Street, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78215
- **NAICS:** 621492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just changed out a filter on the water treatment system. As he was putting the water treatment system back online, the stand that the filter sits on cracked and shifted, causing the filter to come down on and break his left arm.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*