# Fractures at Green Country Shredding & Recycling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017099051` · 9/21/2017 · SAND SPRINGS, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Green Country Shredding & Recycling, Inc.
- **Location:** 360 W Main, SAND SPRINGS, OKLAHOMA, 74063
- **NAICS:** 561990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed into the shred trailer of a truck to clean out the shred portion when his arm was caught in the truck's conveyor belt, fracturing his arm and causing skin and tissue damage. He was hospitalized.

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