# Fractures at CANTEX INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024076934` · 7/31/2024 · AUBURNDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** CANTEX INC.
- **Location:** 202 Progress Rd, AUBURNDALE, FLORIDA, 33823
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at an extrusion line and monitoring pipe as it came out of the extrusion machine. The employee went to prevent the production of a defective part and his hand passed through a sensor that triggered the action point for the machine. The machine's clamp came down to pick up the formed pipe and it fractured the employee's arm.

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