# Fractures at Caterpillar, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019054727` · 5/9/2019 · EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Caterpillar, Inc.
- **Location:** 150 Spencer Dr., EAST PEORIA, ILLINOIS, 61630
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 9, 2019, an employee was performing a tool change on a quenching press and suffered multiple fractures to their left arm when their left arm was caught between the tooling on the hydraulic cylinder and the base plate.

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