# Fractures at Missouri Organic Recycling
> OSHA SIR `2019066234` · 6/20/2019 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Eye(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling powered vehicle
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Missouri Organic Recycling
- **Location:** Eastwood Trafficway and US 40 HIghway, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64129
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a tire on a company truck with a bottle jack when the jack started to slip. Another employee pulled the injured employee out from under the truck before it fell off the jack. The trailer hitch on the truck struck and broke the employee's left eye socket and lacerated his nose.

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