# Fractures at Pioneer Opco, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025032503` · 3/17/2025 · AMERICUS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ears and facial region  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Logging and wood processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Pioneer Opco, LLC
- **Location:** 121 Howard Johnson Rd., AMERICUS, GEORGIA, 31719
- **NAICS:** 454310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A contract employee was working to free stuck wood from a pan on a firewood processing machine. The pan flipped up and struck the employee on the left side of their face, resulting in fractured facial bones.

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