# Fractures at Waupaca Foundry Inc. (Plant 2,3)
> OSHA SIR `2024032135` · 3/8/2024 · WAUPACA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Waupaca Foundry Inc. (Plant 2,3)
- **Location:** 1955 Brunner Drive, WAUPACA, WISCONSIN, 54981
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inside a sand muller machine using an air hose to clean out sand. The machine was activated and a metal mixer piece lacerated their upper thigh and fractured their femur. That machine was not locked out/tagged out.

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