# Fractures at DFA Garden City Plant, Dairy Farmers
> OSHA SIR `2022032071` · 3/7/2022 · GARDEN CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Dairy and milk processing machinery-specialized
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** DFA Garden City Plant, Dairy Farmers
- **Location:** 330 U.S. 83, GARDEN CITY, KANSAS, 67846
- **NAICS:** 112120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance on a piece of equipment called a separator, which had been hoisted up using a crane. As the employee reached for a gasket in the separator, two of the pieces being held up came loose and landed on the employee's left forearm. The employee suffered multiple fractures.

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