# Fractures at TYSON FOODS INC.
> OSHA SIR `20241211818` · 12/22/2024 · HOPE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Personal protective equipment (PPE)  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TYSON FOODS INC.
- **Location:** 275 COUNTY RD 278, HOPE, ARKANSAS, 71801
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a product laydown machine and putting a belt back up when her personal protective equipment was caught by a sprocket and her arm was pulled into the spinning shaft. The employee sustained an open fracture to her right forearm.

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