# Fractures at Sam Kane Beef Processors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161110625` · 11/11/2016 · CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sam Kane Beef Processors, LLC
- **Location:** 9001 Leopard Street, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, 78409
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting the position of the cow hide between two metal jaws when his left thumb was caught between the jaws of the skinning machine resulting in a fractured left thumb.

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