# Fractures at Wolverine Tube, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021119804` · 11/12/2021 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wolverine Tube, Inc.
- **Location:** 2100 Market Street NE, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 331318
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was applying lubricant to a machine in "auto-mode." The employee climbed over the slide and entered the area where the machine moved the slide traveler, which impacted his right leg and pushed him against the machine. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.

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