# Fractures at Chase Coporation
> OSHA SIR `2017076390` · 7/11/2017 · OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Chase Coporation
- **Location:** 24 Dana Road, OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01540
- **NAICS:** 313320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just seamed two rolls of fabric together and started a fabric coating machine. He was attempting to clean accumulated latex material off one of the tension rollers when his left forearm was pulled into the machine, fracturing it.

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