# Fractures at Flowers Baking Co of Batesville, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017032644` · 3/22/2017 · BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Flowers Baking Co of Batesville, LLC
- **Location:** 1223 S Saint Louis St, BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72501
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to retrieve a piece of dough that was hanging on a moving conveyor when his right hand was pulled into the machine. The teeth of a hard plastic sprocket wheel then lacerated and fractured his hand.

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