# Fractures at Loos & Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019021893` · 2/20/2019 · POMFRET CENTER, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Loos & Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 16B Mashamoquet Road, POMFRET CENTER, CONNECTICUT, 06259
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was carrying scrap wire near a rotating machine barrel. The spinning barrel caught the wire and pulled the employee's left arm into the machine, causing cuts, abrasions, fractures, and lost feeling/circulation.

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