# Fractures at Kohl's Green Bay West
> OSHA SIR `2025076941` · 7/17/2025 · ASHWAUBENON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Kohl's Green Bay West
- **Location:** 500 Bay Park Square, ASHWAUBENON, WISCONSIN, 54304
- **NAICS:** 448140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was utilizing an inclined conveyor belt in the stock room to transport a bathroom rug to the second floor. She was at the bottom of the conveyor belt when the rug fell into the conveyor roller mechanism, jamming it. She was working to clear the jam when her right arm became caught in the 3.5-inch gap between the powered conveyor belt and the underside roller. The employee was hospitalized with six fractures, including her forearm, index finger, ring finger, wrist, and thumb, as well as a severed artery. The machine was not guarded or locked out/tagged out at the time.

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