# Fractures at Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood
> OSHA SIR `2018088032` · 8/7/2018 · ALLENWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple face locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cans
## Employer
- **Name:** Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood
- **Location:** 2 US-15, ALLENWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, 17810
- **NAICS:** 922140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting away a pallet consisting of 16 cases of canned carrots in a warehouse. While unpacking the pallet of canned carrots, the employee lifted a case off the second to last row and a can of carrots from the bottom row exploded upward, striking the employee's face. The employee suffered facial lacerations, a left nasal bone fracture, a left orbital floor fracture, a soft tissue hernia in the maxillary sinus, left lateral rectus swelling, and loose teeth, requiring hospitalization.

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