# Fractures at Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171010000` · 10/18/2017 · LEXINGTON, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 1500 Plum Creek, LEXINGTON, NEBRASKA, 68850
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working/cleaning near a running conveyor when the employee's cotton glove was pulled into the conveyor. The employee's right arm was then fractured by the conveyor's sprocket mechanism.

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