# Fractures at Parker Hannifin Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019032465` · 3/7/2019 · VERO BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Parker Hannifin Corporation
- **Location:** 1625 98th Avenue, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, 32966
- **NAICS:** 333995
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had placed UHMW (ultra-high molecular weight) tube material on a mandrel, then turned on the equipment. The rotating mandrel caught his sleeve and the tube material broke his left arm.

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