# Fractures at Merchants Metals, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020010700` · 1/22/2020 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Merchants Metals, LLC
- **Location:** 4901 Langley Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77093
- **NAICS:** 332323
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing maintenance on a fence weaver machine. The machine activated, and a rotating shaft caught his hand. His right arm was wrapped around the shaft and suffered multiple fractures.

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