# Fractures at South Chicago Packing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025010255` · 1/8/2025 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by propelled object or substance  unspecified
- **Source:** Hydraulic and pressurized hoses, lines
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** South Chicago Packing LLC
- **Location:** 945 W. 38th St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60609
- **NAICS:** 311225
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unclogging product from a railcar hose using air pressure from a valve. The air hose coupling went out of control in the employee's right hand and struck the employee's right shin, resulting in a fractured tibia. The employee was hospitalized.

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