# Fractures at Shearers Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016076188` · 7/9/2016 · NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Shearers Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 3636 MEDALLION AVENUE, NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, 72112
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and three associates were putting together a sheeter machine that makes tortillas chips when the machine rollers broke the three middle fingers on the employee's right hand. He was hospitalized. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time of the incident.

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