# Fractures at Futamura USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020010735` · 1/23/2020 · TECUMSEH, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Futamura USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 6000 SE 2nd St, TECUMSEH, KANSAS, 66542
- **NAICS:** 325220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee working as a finishing operator was using sand paper to clean a spindle roll on a slitter machine. The employee's arm was caught in the spinning rollers. The employee sustained a compound fracture to the right arm requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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