# Fractures at SUPERIOR HARDWOODS OF OHIO, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021021396` · 2/15/2021 · WELLSTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Chippers
## Employer
- **Name:** SUPERIOR HARDWOODS OF OHIO, INC.
- **Location:** 134 WELLSTON INDUSTRIAL PARK RD, WELLSTON, OHIO, 45692
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sweeping and shoveling chips, wood debris, and sawdust around a chipper. A wood slab on the chipper's conveyor hit the employee in the head. The employee fell to the concrete floor and suffered head trauma, orbital and nasal fractures, and a forehead laceration.

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