# Fractures at Koch Foods of Gadsden, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20211210926` · 12/20/2021 · GADSDEN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Clothing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Koch Foods of Gadsden, LLC
- **Location:** 501 Paden Rd, GADSDEN, ALABAMA, 35903
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stacking 40-pound boxes of chicken leg quarters. A rotating hose clamp below the guard/conveyor on a conveyor belt caught the employee's smock sleeve and pulled his left arm down at an angle, breaking the forearm.

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