# Fractures at KW Plastics recycling division
> OSHA SIR `2017010680` · 1/22/2017 · TROY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** KW Plastics recycling division
- **Location:** 279 Pike Country Lake road, TROY, ALABAMA, 36079
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was attempting to put a screen back on a spin dryer, he stepped into an opening on an auger and his leg was crushed/fractured by the auger.

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