# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Statewide Cotton Company
> OSHA SIR `2019010480` · 1/15/2019 · PALACIOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
- **Secondary source:** Clothing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Statewide Cotton Company
- **Location:** 3500 North 4th Street, PALACIOS, TEXAS, 77465
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the chains in the bed of the module truck. His clothing became caught in the chain and sprocket causing a separation to his right arm's pectoral muscle.

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