# Fractures at INTERCERAMIC INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021054293` · 5/26/2021 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Kilns
## Employer
- **Name:** INTERCERAMIC INC.
- **Location:** 2333 S. JUPITER ROAD, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75041
- **NAICS:** 327122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a dryer kiln when an alarm went off indicating that one of the two limit switches of the centering device control was not functioning properly. In order to reach the centering device control limit switch, the employee used a rod and kneeled down stretching his body/hand forward between the dryer exit and a column of an unloader machine. The employee's body was caught between the exiting tile cart and the column of the unloader machine resulting in fractured ribs.

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