# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Greif Packaging
> OSHA SIR `2025077113` · 7/22/2025 · AUSTELL, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Scrap metal
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Greif Packaging
- **Location:** 3300 Joe Jerkins Blvd, AUSTELL, GEORGIA, 30106
- **NAICS:** 326150
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 22, 2025, an employee was cutting/torching a large piece of metal when a piece of the material broke loose, struck him mid-stomach, and knocked him to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with an umbilical hernia and fractures to his right femur and left fibula.

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