# Fractures at Dauber Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025077228` · 7/24/2025 · TONICA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Dauber Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 577 N 18th Rd., TONICA, ILLINOIS, 61370
- **NAICS:** 327999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running the cuber machine (moves and stacks blocks onto pallets) in the block plant. He went to manually move some blocks and the carriage of the cuber moved and pinned his midsection (abdomen, pelvis, and lower back region). The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his bottom two ribs and L3 vertebra. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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