# Fractures at Synergy Equipment Clearwater
> OSHA SIR `2025010239` · 1/8/2025 · CLEARWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nose, nasal cavity
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Strapping, bands
- **Secondary source:** Sledges, sledgehammers
## Employer
- **Name:** Synergy Equipment Clearwater
- **Location:** 12600 Automobile Boulevard, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, 33762
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a ratchet binder from a trailer. The binder had been raised using a forklift fork and was under tension when he struck it with a mini-sledgehammer. It came loose and struck him on the nose, breaking it.

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