# Fractures at East Coast Erosion Blankets
> OSHA SIR `2016010381` · 1/14/2016 · BERNVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** East Coast Erosion Blankets
- **Location:** 443 Bricker Road, BERNVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 19506
- **NAICS:** 313210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was greasing/cleaning a machine barring when his shirt was caught in a roller, pulling his arm into the machine. He suffered an open left distal radius fracture with soft tissue damage.

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