# Fractures at Texas Honing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032717` · 3/20/2018 · PEARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Jaw, chin
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Slings
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Honing, Inc.
- **Location:** 1710 Mykawa Road, PEARLAND, TEXAS, 77581
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a crane and sling to support a part while changing the inserts when one leg of the two-leg sling became hung up on part of the machine. The employee continued to raise the crane, and the unconnected sling leg released and struck his chin, fracturing his mandible.

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