# Fractures at Burnex Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024032728` · 3/27/2024 · RINGWOOD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Burnex Corporation
- **Location:** 5418 Business Parkway, RINGWOOD, ILLINOIS, 60072
- **NAICS:** 333517
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually operating a hand wheel when the motor engaged and the wheel spun and struck the employee in the wrist/arm, 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*