# Fractures at Architectural Polymers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054790` · 5/21/2025 · PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Dies, molds, patterns
- **Secondary source:** Cranes  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Architectural Polymers, Inc.
- **Location:** 1220 Little Gap Road, PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18071
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a crane system to remove a structural polymer liner weighing about 1,000 pounds from a casting bed. The liner slipped from the crane's lifting bar and fell to the ground, striking the employee. The employee's left ankle and pelvis were fractured and the employee was hospitalized.

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