# Fractures at Ball Metalpack, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201110804` · 11/14/2020 · DE FOREST, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Ball Metalpack, LLC
- **Location:** 600 Ball Court, DE FOREST, WISCONSIN, 53532
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was adjusting the alignment of a shaft-driven conveyor belt. The rotating shaft bolt and collar caught the employee's sleeve and pulled the employee's right arm into the shaft. The employee suffered multiple fractures to the arm.

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