# Fractures at BERWICK ELECTRIC COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `20161111006` · 11/23/2016 · FOUNTAIN, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Elevators, hoists, aerial lifts, personnel platforms-except truck-mounted, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** BERWICK ELECTRIC COMPANY
- **Location:** 6598 Ray Nixon Rd., FOUNTAIN, COLORADO, 80817
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a 14-foot boom lift, setting up a wire pool and trying to place it in a sheave, when he lost control and his right arm was caught between the wire and the railing of the lift, breaking it.

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