# Fractures at Moltz Constructors Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010040` · 1/4/2017 · WINDSOR, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Skull
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Container caps, lids, covers
- **Secondary source:** Pressure lines, except hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** Moltz Constructors Inc.
- **Location:** 7301 N. County Road 1, WINDSOR, COLORADO, 80550
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing the safety barricade in front of a cap on a 24-inch PVC pipe after pressure testing when the cap became over-pressurized and blew off the pipe, striking him and knocking him against the wall and to the ground. He suffered a fracture to the left side of his skull near the ear and a sprained right knee.

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