# Fractures at National Pipe and Plastics Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010893` · 1/29/2024 · ENDICOTT, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Pipes and tubes  plastic, PVC, rubber
- **Secondary source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** National Pipe and Plastics Inc.
- **Location:** 15 Mills Avenue, ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, 13760
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A machine used to form PVC pipe began to jam up; the formed pipe began to bow. An employee cut the pipe, and a piece of it flew into another employee. That employee suffered a fractured left eye orbit, fractures to facial bones on the left side, and three fractured left-side ribs.

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