# Fractures at Bilfinger Westcon Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016010825` · 1/28/2016 · PORTLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Face, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Bilfinger Westcon Inc.
- **Location:** 2800 Kay Bailey Hutchinson, PORTLAND, TEXAS, 78374
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was knocking the steel wedge out of the rigging. As he struck the steel wedge (10lb. 6 in. long), it shot out, struck the employee in the face, and  fractured it.

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