# Fractures at Crystal Window & Door System, LTD.
> OSHA SIR `2017066046` · 6/30/2017 · FLUSHING, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine platforms
## Employer
- **Name:** Crystal Window & Door System, LTD.
- **Location:** 31-10 Whitestone Expressway, FLUSHING, NEW YORK, 11354
- **NAICS:** 321911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking PVC powder in an extruder machine when he lost his balance while stepping down from the platform and fell to the ground, fracturing his right hand.

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