# Fractures at Zschimmer & Schwarz, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024053933` · 5/6/2024 · GORDON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple regions of the head
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Caps, lids, covers  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Tanker trucks
## Employer
- **Name:** Zschimmer & Schwarz, Inc.
- **Location:** 7400 Gordon Mcintyre Rd., GORDON, GEORGIA, 31031
- **NAICS:** 325180
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a tanker trailer when he heard an audible leak from the nitrogen valve and shut it off. When he stepped onto the trailer to investigate, the wash cap (three inches wide) popped off and hit him in the face. He sustained fractures to his nose and orbital bone, an open skull fracture, and lacerations to his face.

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