# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at BAE Systems
> OSHA SIR `2015010199` · 1/18/2015 · NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** 750 W. Berkley Ave., NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, 23523
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

While manufacturing a shaft pin on a metal lathe, an employee in the Bldg. #304 Machine Shop was sanding the rotating pin with an emery cloth.  The cloth bound and pulled the employee into the rotating lathe machine, resulting in a left broken hand and lacerations on the right hand that required surgery and in-patient hospitalization.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*