# Fractures at Primex Plastics Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020043012` · 4/2/2020 · GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Primex Plastics Corporation
- **Location:** 61 River Drive, GARFIELD, NEW JERSEY, 07026
- **NAICS:** 325991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a pallet that a forklift operator had lifted approximately 10 feet in the air to remove an exhaust pipe. The employee fell from the pallet while attempting to remove the exhaust pipe 
and struck his left wrist on a water pipe as he fell to the floor. He suffered a severe fracture of his left wrist resulting in hospitalization.

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