# Fractures at Bar Processing Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2020032526` · 3/17/2020 · CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Bar Processing Corp.
- **Location:** 1601 Wentworth Ave., CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, 60411
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to load a bar straightener machine. The employee's arm was pulled into the machine, where it was broken and lacerated.

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