# Fractures at The Lincoln Electric Company
> OSHA SIR `2024053991` · 5/7/2024 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Wheeled containers, material moving equipment  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** The Lincoln Electric Company
- **Location:** 22801 St Clair Avenue, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44117
- **NAICS:** 333992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on top of an automated weigh scale cart when they became caught between a weigh tub that was in motion and a chemical feed tube, resulting in a broken pelvis requiring surgery and multiple fractures to the spine.

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