# Fractures at Telsmith, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043967` · 4/25/2018 · MEQUON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Telsmith, Inc.
- **Location:** 10910 N. Industrial Dr., MEQUON, WISCONSIN, 53092
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching into a plasma punch machine to retrieve a stuck part when the trap door inside the machine closed on the employee's right forearm, crushing the soft tissue and fracturing the ulna.

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