# Fractures at Tokio Coop Gin
> OSHA SIR `20171111056` · 11/17/2017 · TOKIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Tokio Coop Gin
- **Location:** 1413 FM 1780, TOKIO, TEXAS, 79376
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to put cotton back in a bale press. His leg was inside the boxes below floor level. The press was in automatic mode and engaged in rotation, causing his leg to be caught and fractured between the edge of the floor and the edge of the box.

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