# Fractures and other injuries, unspecified at EBV Explosives Environmental Company
> OSHA SIR `2016010223` · 1/11/2016 · CARTHAGE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Explosive devices
## Employer
- **Name:** EBV Explosives Environmental Company
- **Location:** 4174 County Road 180, CARTHAGE, MISSOURI, 64836
- **NAICS:** 562211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 1-11-16, at around 11:47 a.m. CST, an employee was investigating a robotic system that had shut down in a safety cell due to an error.  An explosive device fell from the machine to the floor and detonated while he was exiting the cell. He was thrown against a door frame, breaking his arm and suffering whole-body blunt force trauma.

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