# Fractures at Producers Rice Mill
> OSHA SIR `2017098793` · 9/13/2017 · STUTTGART, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** Producers Rice Mill
- **Location:** 518 E. Harrison St, STUTTGART, ARKANSAS, 72160
- **NAICS:** 493130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were conducting repair operations and lifting an 850-pound 8" pipe with a winch and swiveling block and tackle while working at a height of 15 feet. The employees were trying to position the pipe as they were hoisting it into place when the swivel bound, causing the lifting cable bind and break. A secondary come-a-long and chain kept the pipe from falling, but the pipe swung into an employee, fracturing a vertebra in his neck, breaking his left arm in two places and fracturing his wrist.

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