# Fractures at Wheelabrator Hudson Falls, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023098351` · 9/10/2023 · HUDSON FALLS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Heating and cooking machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Wheelabrator Hudson Falls, LLC
- **Location:** 93 River Street, HUDSON FALLS, NEW YORK, 12839
- **NAICS:** 562213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee cleaned out an ash pit. He then opened a door to another part of the machine and began putting a metal rod in the machine. The rod became jammed and struck the right side of the employee's head and face. He fell to the ground and lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the jaw and orbital bone, and multiple lacerations.

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