# Fractures at Goodwill Industries Of South Texas, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032803` · 3/29/2022 · HARLINGEN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Goodwill Industries Of South Texas, Inc.
- **Location:** 702 Dixieland, HARLINGEN, TEXAS, 78550
- **NAICS:** 813319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading clothing into the baler machine when the machine caught her left arm wedging the arm between the front, interior wall of the baler machine's bale chamber door and the presser. The employee sustained multiple lacerations and arm fractures that required surgery.

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