# Fractures at R. M. Palmer Company
> OSHA SIR `2019010913` · 1/25/2019 · WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** R. M. Palmer Company
- **Location:** 800 Van Reed Rd, WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19610
- **NAICS:** 311351
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the rollers of a conveyor belt when their arm became caught in the rollers and sustained open fractures of the radius and ulna bones in the left forearm.

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