# Fractures at Modern Transportation Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022021564` · 2/17/2022 · KEARNY, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Modern Transportation Services LLC
- **Location:** 1249 Newark - Jersey City Turnpike, KEARNY, NEW JERSEY, 07032
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading his truck at a roofing and asphalt plant. His cell phone fell into an unloading pit and as he tried to catch it a moving conveyor belt caught his sweatshirt and pulled his arm and hand in. He suffered two broken bones in the left hand, as well as fractures to both left forearm bones.

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