# Fractures at Whitehead Die Casting Company
> OSHA SIR `2025043359` · 4/10/2025 · GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Casting machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
## Employer
- **Name:** Whitehead Die Casting Company
- **Location:** 2600 SW Atlanta Hwy, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, 30504
- **NAICS:** 331523
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking the die casting machine when the cavity access door closed behind him and the employee sustained eight fractured ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

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