# Fractures at GERALD PELLETIER, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2018010283` · 1/9/2018 · MILLINOCKET, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Log processing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** GERALD PELLETIER, INC.
- **Location:** 5th St. Johns Wood Camp, MILLINOCKET, MAINE, 04462
- **NAICS:** 113310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a boom from a de-limber machine when another employee inadvertently hit the controls to squeeze the machine's grab arm together. The employee was caught in the grab arm and suffered a broken hip.

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