# Fractures at Lift Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211730` · 12/17/2016 · EAST MOLINE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Lift Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 1103 14th Ave, EAST MOLINE, ILLINOIS, 61244
- **NAICS:** 333923
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a boring bar when the drawstring on his hooded sweatshirt became caught on the spindle. The boring bar then fractured his arm, requiring hospitalization.

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