# Fractures at BASF Corporation - Savannah
> OSHA SIR `2024109513` · 10/12/2024 · SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Container caps, lids, covers
- **Secondary source:** Machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BASF Corporation - Savannah
- **Location:** 1800 East President Street, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31404
- **NAICS:** 327992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were making a grade change to a spray dryer system. Water pressure blew a strainer lid off as one employee was trying to open it; it struck the employee's face, causing fractures to their face and forehead on the left side as well as a cut above the left eye.

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