# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at MARON ELECTRIC COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2024098491` · 9/12/2024 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other upper extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MARON ELECTRIC COMPANY
- **Location:** 350 E Cermak, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60616
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was planning a cable pull operation where the cables would be pulled one at time from a four conductor bundle. The employee was operating the capstan to pull the feeder cable when the drop-in anchor failed, causing the cable sheave to strike the employee in the left arm and torso. The employee sustained a laceration to their left bicep/forearm and fractured ribs on their left side.

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