# Fractures at Groco Specialty Coatings LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023109228` · 10/6/2023 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s) and arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Paint mixing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Groco Specialty Coatings LLC
- **Location:** 10818 C F Hawn Freeway, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75217
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the shaft of a mixer when the blade caught the employee, fracturing and lacerating his left arm and shoulder. The employee's left hand fingers were also fractured.

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