# Fractures at The Hershey Company
> OSHA SIR `2021053952` · 5/13/2021 · HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** The Hershey Company
- **Location:** 6 Scotch Pine Drive, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18202
- **NAICS:** 311320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a piece of emery cloth to polish a metal part that was rotating on a lathe. The part caught the employee's glove, and the lathe broke the employee's right forearm.

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