# Fractures at Meyer's Sausage Company
> OSHA SIR `20181212668` · 12/10/2018 · ELGIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Meat grinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Meyer's Sausage Company
- **Location:** 600 S. Main St., ELGIN, TEXAS, 78621
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the two grinders in the grinding room as part of the daily cleaning schedule. The employee was standing on top of stairs at the top of the grinders. The employee slipped and fell, catching his right arm in a grinder. As the employee was trying to right himself, the grinder was activated. The employee sustained multiple fractures to his right arm.

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