# Fractures at Great Star Plant, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043876` · 4/25/2025 · ELLABELL, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Great Star Plant, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 LG Rd, ELLABELL, GEORGIA, 31308
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing a large metal pipe into a pipe rack in the battery plant using a crane. The injured employee was working in a scissor lift approximately 24 feet above the ground. As the pipe was lifted, it struck the injured employee and caused three rib fractures and chest trauma.

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