# Fractures at J-3 Metals Recycling Center, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025010919` · 1/29/2025 · VIDOR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Clothing
## Employer
- **Name:** J-3 Metals Recycling Center, LLC
- **Location:** 6755 N Hwy 105, VIDOR, TEXAS, 77662
- **NAICS:** 331491
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to remove a piece of wood that was jamming a transfer conveyor at the shredder. He used a tool to clear the jam, then reached to grab the wood. His sleeve got caught in the conveyor and his right arm was pulled into the pulley. The employee was hospitalized with an open fracture and a crush injury/laceration to his right forearm. The machine was running at the time.

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