# Fractures at Biewer Sawmill-Newton, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019010704` · 1/21/2019 · NEWTON, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Biewer Sawmill-Newton, LLC
- **Location:** 331 Coliseum Drive, NEWTON, MISSISSIPPI, 39345
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been operating the strapper machine to strap a bundle of lumber. The employee stepped inside the strapper to remove plastic material from the machine. Plastic strap wrapped around her right leg, pulling her into the bundle of wood and breaking her right tibia.

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