# Fractures at Tyson & Sons, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032110` · 3/2/2018 · POOLER, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Chips, particles, splinters, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Plastic, PVC, or rubber pipes and tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson & Sons, Inc.
- **Location:** Icon, POOLER, GEORGIA, 31322
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting into an excavated PVC waterline with a pipe saw when the PVC pipe shattered under pressure. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to the forearm and cheekbone and lacerations to the face and neck.

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