# Fractures at ATLAS PAPER MILLS
> OSHA SIR `2016076423` · 7/15/2016 · HIALEAH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ATLAS PAPER MILLS
- **Location:** 3725 EAST 10CT, HIALEAH, FLORIDA, 33010
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was covering up equipment to keep it from getting wet in the rain. As the employee tried to tie up the cover his right hand was caught between a moving sprocket and chain resulting in a right pinky finger fracture and a laceration to the right ring finger.

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