# Fractures at Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024065299` · 6/15/2024 · CALVERT, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Furnaces, heaters
- **Secondary source:** Hydraulic and pressurized cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC
- **Location:** 1 Steel Drive, CALVERT, ALABAMA, 36513
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee replaced a hydraulic hose on a hydraulic cylinder that is used to close the furnace doors. The employee was testing the machine and went to adjust or fix the hose when his right arm was caught between the cylinder and the frame of the furnace. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured distal ulnar shaft.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*