# Fractures at MARTCO PLYWOOD
> OSHA SIR `2019010912` · 1/25/2019 · CHOPIN, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Washers, dryers, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MARTCO PLYWOOD
- **Location:** 1695 HIGHWAY 490, CHOPIN, LOUISIANA, 71447
- **NAICS:** 321211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to unhang a belt on a dryer with an extension device. The device got wedged and the employee went through a barrier rail to remove it. His left arm came in contact with the belt sprocket and was pulled into the equipment. The employee received a fracture and laceration to the left arm.

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