# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Midwest Fabrication and Construction
> OSHA SIR `2022097937` · 9/7/2022 · PLAINVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot(feet) and leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
- **Secondary source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Fabrication and Construction
- **Location:** White Energy Ethanol Plant, PLAINVIEW, TEXAS, 79072
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a sprocket for a conveyor. An adjacent conveyor was turned on and caught a welder's blanket that had been covering part of it. The blanket wrapped around the employee's left foot and dragged the employee's leg into the conveyor, causing severe injury to the leg and the foot. The employee was hospitalized.

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