# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087611` · 8/9/2017 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** 801 N Jefferson St, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72764
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a composite board from a cut-off machine when it engaged and came down on his right hand, fracturing and severely lacerating his index, middle, and ring fingers. The machine was guarded at the time.

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