# Fractures at Advanced Foam Recycling
> OSHA SIR `2021021515` · 2/19/2021 · RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower limb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Foam Recycling
- **Location:** 2525 Handley Ederville Rd., RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, 76118
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking in an aisle past bales of stacked polyurethane foam. The stack fell over and the top bale (weighing about 1,200-1,500 pounds) landed on the employee, pinning her under it. She suffered multiple ankle, leg, and arm fractures and possible face injuries.

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