# Fractures at Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024010816` · 1/26/2024 · OPELIKA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC
- **Location:** 4400 North Park Dr, OPELIKA, ALABAMA, 36801
- **NAICS:** 326299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing debris from the bottom mold of a hydraulic press. The employee was beyond the light curtains when they were crushed by the upper die. The employee sustained fractures to their back, hip, and legs, as well as multiple bruises.

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