# Fractures at UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2022087375` · 8/19/2022 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Screwdrivers-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
- **Location:** 1 Sandy Creek Road, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30336
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a belt-tracking fault on a conveyor. The employee went under the machine to adjust the belt with a screwdriver when the rollers engaged, pulling the employee's screwdriver and right arm into the rollers. The employee sustained a forearm fracture.

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