# Fractures at Custom Rubber Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181112281` · 11/30/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Lathes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Custom Rubber Products, LLC
- **Location:** 2625 Bennington Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77093
- **NAICS:** 326299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanding an elastomer-covered pipe using an abrasive belt. The rotating lathe caught his right hand and arm, pulling them in and fracturing the arm.

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