# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Dow Chemical Co.
> OSHA SIR `2015064051` · 6/24/2015 · PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Dow Chemical Co.
- **Location:** 21925 Louisiana 1, PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA, 70764
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee reached into a packaging scale to clean out polyethylene packaging pellets and the pneumatic gate closed on his right hand.

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