# Fractures at Mississippi Polymers, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024053861` · 5/2/2024 · CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mississippi Polymers, INC.
- **Location:** 2733 SOUTH HARPER ROAD, CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI, 38834
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning rollers with a rag when the rag got caught in the rollers and pulled his arm in, resulting in multiple fractures. The machine was not locked out at the time.

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