# Fractures at Southern Industrial Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015129242` · 12/7/2015 · BAXLEY, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Suits, coats, jackets
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Industrial Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 248 Sweetwater Drive, BAXLEY, GEORGIA, 31513
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A contract employee at a host employer worksite was changing a light bulb while positioned on a stepladder when his clothing got caught on a piece of metal on a rotating shaft, pulling the worker into the machine and fracturing both forearms.

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