# Fractures at Sprint Waste Services, LP
> OSHA SIR `2018010262` · 1/9/2018 · TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by handheld object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Sprint Waste Services, LP
- **Location:** 2401 5th Ave S, TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, 77590
- **NAICS:** 562112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to shift a palette using a cheater bar when the cheater bar gave way and hit his nose, breaking and lacerating it.

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