# Fractures at Pallets Acquisition LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018033079` · 3/30/2018 · SHADY DALE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Pallets Acquisition LLC
- **Location:** 128 Farrar St., SHADY DALE, GEORGIA, 31085
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to remove a jammed piece of wood from a saw when the saw caught the wood, resulting in a fracture of the employee's forearm that required hospitalization and surgery. The saw was running at the time of the incident.

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