# Fractures at Polyplex USA LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025088147` · 8/16/2025 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s) and leg(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Rollers, cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Polyplex USA LLC
- **Location:** 3001 Mallard Fox Drive NW, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the rollers on a piece of equipment when their left leg and ankle were caught in the machine. The employee's left fibula was fractured and they sustained an open fracture to the right ankle that required surgery.

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