# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Volkert, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025088404` · 8/22/2025 · REYDELL, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Chips, pellets  metal
- **Secondary source:** Pile drivers, tamping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Volkert, Inc.
- **Location:** Unknown, REYDELL, ARKANSAS, 72133
- **NAICS:** 541330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing and talking to a Department of Transportation employee about the project. They were 40 feet away from a pile-driving operation when a piece of the cast iron pile-driving hammer broke off and struck the employee's hand. The employee sustained a severed artery, laceration, and fractures in their hand, as well as contusions to a leg. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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