# Fractures at Syntec Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018021452` · 2/12/2018 · ROME, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s) and leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Syntec Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 19 Westside Industrial Blvd., ROME, GEORGIA, 30165
- **NAICS:** 313310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving her purse to go home. A plastic liner was sticking out from an empty yarn cage and the employee tripped over the plastic liner and fell fracturing her left femur and patella.

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