# Fractures at Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021486` · 2/16/2024 · ORRTANNA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc.
- **Location:** 1505 Orrtanna Road, ORRTANNA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17353
- **NAICS:** 424480
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanitizing a conveyor belt when their left arm and hand were caught between the belt and pulley, resulting in a fractured forearm.

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