# Fractures at Hydro Extrusion USA LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025054596` · 5/15/2025 · GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Switchboards, panels, fuses
- **Secondary source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hydro Extrusion USA LLC
- **Location:** 2905 Old Oakwood Rd., GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, 30504
- **NAICS:** 331316
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a press puller and aligning the puller when it fell. The puller electrical panel struck their left upper back, resulting in fractures to their T12 and L1 vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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