# Fractures at New Hampshire Boring, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016076026` · 7/5/2016 · JOHNSTON, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** New Hampshire Boring, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Greenville Avenue, JOHNSTON, RHODE ISLAND, 02919
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling the sampler attached to a 140-pound hammer out of the ground using the "cat head" (a revolving spool that helps raise the hammer) when he was pulled up off the ground and into the cat head by the force of the rope being pulled. He broke his left forearm.

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