# Fractures at Better Baked Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015118700` · 11/17/2015 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Better Baked Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 2200 East 38th Street, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16510
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As the employee was cleaning the cheese conveyor, his glove got caught on the conveyor pulling his hand and arm into a rotating circular shaft.  The employee suffered a compound fracture of the right forearm requiring surgery.

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