# Fractures at Appleton Group LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017109849` · 10/13/2017 · STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Welding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Appleton Group LLC
- **Location:** 2150 W. South Loop, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, 76401
- **NAICS:** 335932
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a wrench to tighten a bolt on the back of a welder when the welder came down on his left hand, lacerating and fracturing it.

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