# Fractures at PQ Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20181212524` · 12/6/2018 · KANSAS CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PQ Corporation
- **Location:** 1700 Kansas Avenue, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, 66105
- **NAICS:** 325188
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hoist as part of the cleaning process for a reaction vessel. While moving the basket/screen that sits atop the vessel, a hoist strap on the spreader bar caught and then sprang loose. The employee was struck in the face fracturing maxillary and nasal spine bones and causing a laceration.

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