# Fractures at Paradigm Metals Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2018021293` · 2/7/2018 · PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Milling machines
- **Secondary source:** Suits, coats, jackets
## Employer
- **Name:** Paradigm Metals Incorporated
- **Location:** 15811 Vision Drive, PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS, 78660
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the vertical mill press when the employee's jacket sleeve came in contact with the rotating counter bore bit. His left arm was pulled around the machine fracturing it and also causing many lacerations.

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