# Fractures at ESAB Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019010339` · 1/10/2019 · HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ESAB Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 1500 Karen Lane, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17331
- **NAICS:** 333992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing a cleaning task at the start of a product change-over on the production line. The machine includes a free-floating pan and scraper drum. The employee's left arm became trapped between the pan and drum causing a laceration and fracture.

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