# Fractures at ZL Chemicals Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `2022010740` · 1/25/2022 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Bags, sacks
## Employer
- **Name:** ZL Chemicals Ltd.
- **Location:** 9718 County Rd 150, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79711
- **NAICS:** 424690
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up spilled polymer from a broken bag. Another bag (weight 1,980 pounds) fell from above and hit the employee, who suffered a broken right ankle and torn ligaments in the left knee.

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