# Fractures at Tifton Aluminum Extrusions, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019099986` · 9/24/2019 · TIFTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Tifton Aluminum Extrusions, Inc.
- **Location:** 250 Southwell Blvd, TIFTON, GEORGIA, 31794
- **NAICS:** 331319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to lay metal flat on a cooling table from a safety basket. The arm of a tail stretcher machine caught the employee's right leg and broke the thigh.

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