# Fractures at Ardent Mills, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016076940` · 7/30/2016 · EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Container caps, lids, covers
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Ardent Mills, LLC
- **Location:** 4888 South Delaware Drive, EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18040
- **NAICS:** 311211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a bulk flour trailer. A loading cap came off the trailer under pressure and struck the employee in the face resulting in facial lacerations, a nose fracture, and broken teeth.

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