# Fractures at Flex-O-Glass, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017099343` · 9/29/2017 · DIXON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple lower extremities locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Winders, unwinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Flex-O-Glass, Inc.
- **Location:** 1200 Warp Rd., DIXON, ILLINOIS, 61021
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was removing folds from the plastic sheet/film product web that was running through the greenhouse rewind machine. The employee's right foot slipped and was caught in an ingoing nip point between rotating rollers. The employee sustained compound fractures to his lower leg, ankle and foot. The rollers were unguarded at the time.

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