# Fractures at HME Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015118704` · 11/17/2015 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), 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.
## Employer
- **Name:** HME Inc.
- **Location:** 2828 NW Button Rd, TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66618
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A plate machine operator had his foot on/under the plate machine and the moving gantry on the machine caught his foot and drug it causing a chip fracture and lacerations.

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