# Fractures at Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025010964` · 1/30/2025 · SPRING GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Paper production machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC
- **Location:** 228 South Main Street, SPRING GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17362
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was assisting another employee with a wheel turn up (changing papers) on a paper machine. The paper sheet was not following the new spool. The employees were using a 5-foot wooden pole to tuck. The pole hit a nip point, causing the end of the pole to whip and strike the injured employee's left hand. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their hand.

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