# Fractures at Sun Auto Tire & Service, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025088328` · 8/20/2025 · SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forehead, temple(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion of pressure vessel, piping, or tire
- **Source:** Tires, inner tubes
- **Secondary source:** Air compressors
## Employer
- **Name:** Sun Auto Tire & Service, Inc
- **Location:** 100 South Main, SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA, 74066
- **NAICS:** 441320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee finished installing a tube into a 12.4 x 24" tractor tire and connected the air hose to inflate the tube. The tube overinflated and exploded, causing the wheel and tire to fly through the air and strike the employee's forehead. The employee sustained a frontal sinus fracture and a forehead laceration.

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