# Fractures at US Ecology Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191011018` · 10/22/2019 · CLAREMORE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** US Ecology Inc.
- **Location:** 2700 S 25th W. Ave., CLAREMORE, OKLAHOMA, 74017
- **NAICS:** 562211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing maintenance work on a mixer shaft. The shaft rotated and struck him in the head, smashing his face against a forklift mast. He suffered facial fractures.

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