# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Perdue Farms Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016099054` · 9/24/2016 · GEORGETOWN, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Perdue Farms Inc.
- **Location:** 20621 Savannah Road, GEORGETOWN, DELAWARE, 19947
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was decontaminating or sanitizing the chiller area with a hose when a sprocket hit his hand, requiring hospitalization.

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