# Fractures at Elster American Meter Company, L.L.C.
> OSHA SIR `2018021756` · 2/20/2018 · NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Elster American Meter Company, L.L.C.
- **Location:** 2221 Industrial Road, NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA, 68410
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing routine minor maintenance on an automatic flagrod machine's gas meter when he noticed a flagrod was out of place in the machine's swage former. He was trying to push it into place when the head of the swage former came down on his hand, fracturing his hand, thumb, and middle finger.

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