# Fractures at GRT Rubber Technologies LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043765` · 4/30/2024 · PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** GRT Rubber Technologies LLC
- **Location:** 201 Dana Dr, PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS, 72450
- **NAICS:** 326220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping another employee start a rubber spool on a tube. While the injured employee was helping to roll the tube, both of his hands got caught in the rubber spool and and the tube rolled on top of the employee causing two fractures to their right radius and lacerations around the right eye.

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