# Fractures at PECO Pallet, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2025021814` · 2/25/2025 · HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** PECO Pallet, Incorporated
- **Location:** 1104 North Park Drive, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18202
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was observing the pallet painting line. The employee went to remove a piece of plastic from the rotating drive shaft of the chain conveyor when their glove/hand became entangled in the plastic which pulled the employee's arm into the rotating shaft. The employee sustained fractures to the right radius and ulna.

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