# Fractures at Portacool, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017065535` · 6/16/2017 · CENTER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Portacool, LLC
- **Location:** 711 FM 2468, CENTER, TEXAS, 75935
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee entered an area with a conveyor when a robot sensor activated and pinned the employee between the robot and conveyor, breaking six ribs. The area was guarded at the time.

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