# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Industrial Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019099339` · 9/8/2019 · CENTER, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Pressurized water-blast
- **Secondary source:** Boilers
## Employer
- **Name:** Industrial Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** 3401 24th Street SW, CENTER, NORTH DAKOTA, 58530
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was raking slag while standing on a platform. A plug in the boiler came loose causing water and slag to eject at high pressure and strike the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the back, a compression fracture to vertebrae, and a brain hematoma.

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