# Fractures at B&G Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018054711` · 5/15/2018 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** B&G Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 443 East 100th Street, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11236
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a hydraulic pallet lift conveyor to remove cans of tomatoes from a pallet. His leg was between the pallet lift conveyor and a guardrail when the hydraulic control was pressed, causing the pallet conveyor to rise and squeeze his right leg between the pallet and guardrail. His right leg broke.

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