# Fractures at Conwed Plastics, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019021191` · 2/1/2019 · ATHENS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Conwed Plastics, LLC
- **Location:** 1755 OLYMPIC DRIVE, ATHENS, GEORGIA, 30601
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 1, 2019, at approximately 4:45 a.m., an employee was feeding sheet plastic into an extruder-winder when his arm became caught in the machine. He sustained a fractured right arm requiring surgery.

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