# Fractures at SPX Flow
> OSHA SIR `2018088140` · 8/8/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Sanders-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** SPX Flow
- **Location:** 8800 Westplain Dr, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77041
- **NAICS:** 332911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using sandpaper to remove tool markings from a stem that was on a rotating manual lathe when the sandpaper became snagged on a burr and pulled the employee's left arm around the piece part being worked. He suffered a broken ulna and radius bone in his left arm.

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