# Fractures and burns at Doskocil Manufacturing Inc
> OSHA SIR `20231211444` · 12/16/2023 · ARLINGTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Doskocil Manufacturing Inc
- **Location:** 800 W. Stephens St., ARLINGTON, TEXAS, 76011
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning leaking plastic from an injection nozzle. As the employee was lifting and dislodging plastic, the nozzle shifted and burst apart. The nozzle struck the employee's mouth and jaw and burned the employee. They also sustained a jaw fracture.

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