# Fractures at Quality Electric Steel Castings Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20211210974` · 12/21/2021 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Suits, coats, jackets
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Electric Steel Castings Inc.
- **Location:** 252 McCarty St., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 331513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a table blast machine. While he was cleaning a clog, his coat became caught in the moving axle, which pulled him in and broke his right arm. He was hospitalized.

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