# Fractures at Valley Produce, Harvesting & Hauling Co.
> OSHA SIR `2022032587` · 3/23/2022 · PALM BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper extremities, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Valley Produce, Harvesting & Hauling Co.
- **Location:** Browns Farms Rd, PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, 33480
- **NAICS:** 111219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working behind the platform cutting and placing romaine lettuce heads on a table. A plastic bag used to package the lettuce flew up into a conveyor belt toward one of the rollers. The employee went to grab the bag and the belt caught the sleeve of his shirt pulling his right arm into the machine and around the roller. The employee suffered fractures and lacerations that required surgery.

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