# Fractures at Algus Packaging, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076376` · 7/15/2024 · DEKALB, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Other semi, tractor-trailer
## Employer
- **Name:** Algus Packaging, Inc.
- **Location:** 1212 E. Taylor St., DEKALB, ILLINOIS, 60115
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee closed a truck driver's door while standing on the dock plate and the driver's trailer plate. The dock plate started lifting and lowering and caught his foot/ankle between the trailer door/plate and the dock plate. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

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