# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Performance Contracting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098770` · 9/19/2024 · THOMPSONS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple leg locations  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Compactors, crushers, pulverizers earth, mineral
- **Secondary source:** Rollers, cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Contracting, Inc.
- **Location:** NRG WA Parish, THOMPSONS, TEXAS, 77481
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning coal build-up inside pulverizers that were 10 feet 3 inches wide and contained three stationary rollers. After dislodging a piece of coal, the employee exited the pulverizers when the converging floor moved and their left leg was caught between one of the three rollers. The employee suffered injuries including a laceration to the lower left thigh and multiple fractures to the lower left leg. The motor to the converging floor was not in place 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*