# Fractures at Mid Continent Steel and Wire, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032746` · 3/26/2017 · POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **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:** Mid Continent Steel and Wire, Inc.
- **Location:** 2700 Central Avenue, POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI, 63901
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a plastic strip collator when her right forearm was caught in the orientation wheel, lacerating and fracturing it. The machine was running and unguarded 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*