# Fractures at Altorfer Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023053879` · 5/1/2023 · CASEY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Spreading machinery-agricultural
## Employer
- **Name:** Altorfer Inc.
- **Location:** 705 W Main St, CASEY, ILLINOIS, 62420
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a belt on a fertilizer spreading machine when their lower left tibia was fractured by a moving chain and sprocket.

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