# Fractures at Mativ, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032573` · 3/22/2023 · STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Mativ, Inc.
- **Location:** 3243 Whiting Ave, STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN, 54481
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was prepping pulp material to load into a pulp machine. The 420-pound pulp bale was elevated by a forklift and the employee was standing in front of the lift to cut the wire banding from the bale in order for the pulp to be loaded into the pulp machine. When the last banding was cut, the tension was released and the bales fell. A bale landed on the employee's right leg, resulting in a hip or femur fracture.

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