# Fractures at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `20161211727` · 12/17/2016 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Suits, coats, jackets
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 1400 North Weber Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57103
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a conveyor well when the cuff of the employee's coat became caught on the conveyor and pulled the employee's right arm into the sprocket, fracturing it. The conveyor was not locked/tagged out at the time of the incident.

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