# Fractures at KELLOGG COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2015010970` · 1/30/2015 · OMAHA, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple upper extremities locations, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Lathes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** KELLOGG COMPANY
- **Location:** 9601 F STREET, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, 68127
- **NAICS:** 311230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a lathe in the packing maintenance shop. The employee was using emery cloth to buff a shaft when the employee's gloved right hand was pulled into the lathe. The employee fractured the right wrist and three fingers, requiring an overnight inpatient hospitalization and surgery at UNMC hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.

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