# Fractures at WAGNER INDUSTRIES INC
> OSHA SIR `2020054492` · 5/14/2020 · MONROE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** WAGNER INDUSTRIES INC
- **Location:** Wagner Logistics Div. 178, MONROE, LOUISIANA, 71203
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was training on how to clean off the wire of an auto-tie baler. His right hand was between two pieces of the frame on the machine when the baler cycled and caught his gloved right hand, causing a laceration and open hand fracture. He was hospitalized and had hand surgery.

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