# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Ensinger Special Polymers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022043210` · 4/12/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ensinger Special Polymers, Inc.
- **Location:** 12331 Cutten Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77066
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stripping a mold (removing product from the mold). In staging the part for stripping, the pusher and mandrel were misaligned which caused the tool to kick out, striking the employee in the chest. The employee sustained blunt force trauma to the chest.

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