# Fractures at Spears Caney Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024021856` · 2/29/2024 · CANEY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Rib(s), oblique area
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Robotic arm perimeters
## Employer
- **Name:** Spears Caney Inc
- **Location:** 1609 CR 1900, CANEY, KANSAS, 67333
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a six-axis robot arm in the barcode/packaging area, when the robot struck the employee resulting in six rib fractures that required hospitalization. The robot was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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