# Surface, flesh wounds and soft tissue injuries at Artco-Bell Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024043231` · 4/13/2024 · TEMPLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple upper extremities locations  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Surface, flesh wounds and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Industrial surfacing and finishing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Hoses  except machine
## Employer
- **Name:** Artco-Bell Corporation
- **Location:** 1302 Industrial Boulevard, TEMPLE, TEXAS, 76504
- **NAICS:** 337127
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hose to rinse the rollers of a glue machine that had laminated wood boards. The hose got caught in the rollers before pulling the employee's right arm into the rollers, resulting in hospitalization due to a contusion to the forearm and elbow, an elbow sprain, muscle strain, fascia and tendon damage in the forearm, pain in the forearm and elbow, and a contusion and pain in the right upper arm.

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