# Fractures at RoyOMartin - Plywood & Solid Wood Plant
> OSHA SIR `2023043356` · 4/14/2023 · CHOPIN, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** RoyOMartin - Plywood & Solid Wood Plant
- **Location:** 1695 Louisiana 490, CHOPIN, LOUISIANA, 71447
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a stacking stick on a sander strapper when their arm was caught between the load and strapper platen. The employee sustained a left wrist fracture that required hospitalization.

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