# Fractures at Specialty Tires of America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032295` · 3/11/2025 · INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Rollers, cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Specialty Tires of America, Inc.
- **Location:** 1600 Washington Street, INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, 15701
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 11, 2025, an employee was preparing to change the stock roll in the first ply let-off of a tire-building machine. When the employee lifted the stock, the rubber proved to be stuck to the liner; the employee's left arm was pulled around the liner guide roller, and the employee suffered a compound fracture to the forearm. They were hospitalized.

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