# Fractures at Kopco, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023043079` · 4/7/2023 · FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Kopco, Inc
- **Location:** 8307 Ball Road, FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, 72908
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a shaft from a routing machine when the shaft disconnected from the magnet apparatus and struck the employee's right forearm and fractured it.

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