# Fractures at Joy Global Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021403` · 2/12/2017 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Joy Global Inc.
- **Location:** 4400 W. National Ave., MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53214
- **NAICS:** 333131
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing service and maintenance on a machine when the pulley unit lacerated and fractured the employee's right hand, requiring surgery and hospitalization. The machine was unguarded and energized 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*