# Fractures at Republic Conduit, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022010140` · 1/6/2022 · CEDAR SPRINGS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Metal materials-nonstructural, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Republic Conduit, Inc.
- **Location:** 633 Georgia Tubing Road, CEDAR SPRINGS, GEORGIA, 39832
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to align steel coils with the entry point of an end welder. The employee's right hand was caught between a steel coil and the adjustment screw at the entry point of the machine. The employee suffered a puncture and a fracture to the hand.

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