# Fractures at Flex-N-Gate Texas, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023010871` · 1/27/2023 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Chains, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Fasteners, connectors, ropes, ties, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Flex-N-Gate Texas, LLC
- **Location:** 2150 Bardin Rd., GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75050
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just finished connecting a chain and hook to a steel mold D-ring in order to remove the mold from a plastic injection molding machine. As the employee was adding tension to the chain, the D-ring snapped, causing the hook to strike the employee. They sustained lacerations to the head and nose, as well as fractures to the nose, forehead and right cheek bone.

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