# Fractures at kirby-smith machinery
> OSHA SIR `2024010474` · 1/17/2024 · ALTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ears and facial region  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Excavators
- **Secondary source:** Lubricating fluids
## Employer
- **Name:** kirby-smith machinery
- **Location:** 121 Chessen Lane, ALTON, ILLINOIS, 62002
- **NAICS:** 532490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an excavator track. He was heating a part when hardened grease particulate struck his face, causing his face to contact the bottom side of the moving track. The employee suffered injuries to his eye, nose, and cheek that included lacerations and multiple broken facial bones that required surgery.

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