# Fractures at International Paper Company
> OSHA SIR `2016109960` · 10/22/2016 · LITHONIA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** International Paper Company
- **Location:** 6792 Marbut Rd, LITHONIA, GEORGIA, 30058
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee suffered multiple fractures and tissue damage to his arm when he opened the guard of a scrap baler. The baler was not locked/tagged out at the time.

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