# Fractures at HMS Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025087689` · 8/5/2025 · BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Clothes washers, dryers
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** HMS Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Veterans Ave, BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI, 39531
- **NAICS:** 811412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a dryer at a commercial laundry facility. The emergency stop was released, and the dryer broke his left humerus and lacerated his left forearm.

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