# Fractures at Wayne Farms LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022087331` · 8/18/2022 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Wayne Farms LLC
- **Location:** 254 Ipsco Street, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing meat from a carcass and tossing the meat onto a conveyor. When he reached through the moving cone line to retrieve a misplaced carcass, the carcass/cone caught their upper left arm and rammed it into a COVID-19 barrier pole. The employee's humerus was fractured.

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