# Fractures at Lippert Components Manufacturing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021027` · 2/2/2024 · DOUBLE SPRINGS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Lippert Components Manufacturing, Inc.
- **Location:** 112 Brewer Street, DOUBLE SPRINGS, ALABAMA, 35553
- **NAICS:** 332321
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making repairs to rollers where adhesive is applied and heated. The employee was investigating why glue was getting on glass material coming through the rollers when a glass pane contacted his left hand, causing fractures in the hand. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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