# Fractures at Hooks & Associates Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021108632` · 10/6/2021 · FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Hooks & Associates Inc
- **Location:** 6305 South 31st Street, FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, 72908
- **NAICS:** 334519
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 8:50 a.m. on October 6, 20201, an employee was positioned behind a metal shear to help hold a piece of material about to be cut. As the shearing machine was engaged, its vertically moving backstop pinched the employee's left arm against a table below, in place to catch clippings. The employee suffered broken bones just above the wrist and was hospitalized.

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