# Fractures at Dakota Gasification Company
> OSHA SIR `2021119894` · 11/15/2021 · BEULAH, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Clothing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dakota Gasification Company
- **Location:** 420 County Road 26, BEULAH, NORTH DAKOTA, 58523
- **NAICS:** 325120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inspecting a coal conveyor belt. The idler pulley system caught the employee's clothing and pulled in the employee's arm up to the elbow. The employee suffered multiple fractures and lacerations and was hospitalized.

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