# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Duke Energy Renewables
> OSHA SIR `2023043466` · 4/18/2023 · LAMESA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Container caps, lids, covers
- **Secondary source:** Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Duke Energy Renewables
- **Location:** Mesquite Creek Wind Farm Lamesa, LAMESA, TEXAS, 79331
- **NAICS:** 221115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a mobile oil exchange trailer, climbing over an oil tank to adjust an oil hose reel. The tank valve opened, causing the pressurized tank fill cap to strike the employee in the face. The employee lost multiple teeth and suffered lacerations and fractures to the face.

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