# Fractures at Ascend Performance Materials, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171211794` · 12/12/2017 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Jaw, chin
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ascend Performance Materials, LLC
- **Location:** 1050 Chemstrand Avenue, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pressure testing a tanker truck and adjusting the tanker's wash-out cap when the cap contacted the employee's face. The employee suffered a broken jaw and lacerations to the chin.

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