# Fractures at Quietflex Manufacturing Company, LP
> OSHA SIR `2017032038` · 3/4/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** Quietflex Manufacturing Company, LP
- **Location:** 4518 BRITTMOORE RD., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77041
- **NAICS:** 327993
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At approximately 8:25 a.m. on 3/4/2017, an employee was working on top of the cooling conveyor while cleaning the oven conveyor. The cleaning hose became caught in a gap between the oven roller and the conveyer unit and wrapped around his foot pulling both feet and lower legs into the gap. The employee was caught in and struck by the oven roller. The employee was admitted to the hospital with multiple fractures.

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