# Fractures at Kloeckner Metals Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017109505` · 10/3/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Kloeckner Metals Corporation
- **Location:** 7400 Mesa Dr., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77028
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After preparing a stacker, an employee exited it and walked around to the operator side. His hand then contacted a moving shaft, which caught his left arm and pulled it back resulting in a broken forearm and an open wound.

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