# Fractures at Fisher Barton Blades, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032594` · 3/19/2020 · WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Fisher Barton Blades, Inc.
- **Location:** 300 AIR PARK DRIVE, WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN, 53094
- **NAICS:** 333515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing burrs from a rotating shaft with a hand grinder. The shaft caught the employee's glove and pulled the employee's left hand into the roller, causing two broken fingers and nerve damage for which surgery was needed.

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