# Fractures at Cheese Merchants of America LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181111670` · 11/12/2018 · BARTLETT, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Suits, coats, jackets
## Employer
- **Name:** Cheese Merchants of America LLC
- **Location:** 1301 Schiferl Road, BARTLETT, ILLINOIS, 60103
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was packaging cheese when the line where the cups go in became jammed from excess cheese. While he was cleaning the area around the cups, the machine became unjammed and caught his lab coat on a metal chain. The chain then fractured his left forearm.

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