# Fractures at Menard, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087391` · 8/3/2017 · EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Conveyors-pneumatic
## Employer
- **Name:** Menard, Inc.
- **Location:** 4860 Menard Drive, Bldg 2, EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN, 54703
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 3, 2017, an employee was checking an air leak on a pneumatic conveyor system when the employee's left middle finger was caught in the conveyor drive. The employee suffered fractures and abrasions to the left index and middle fingers.

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