# Fractures at Seneca Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017098920` · 9/18/2017 · EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Harvesting and threshing machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Seneca Foods Corporation
- **Location:** Farm field somewhere in southern Wisconsin, EVANSVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53536
- **NAICS:** 311421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The lima bean combine harvester was having infeed problems. An employee climbed up on the machine head to observe the problem. The harvester operator was unaware the employee was there and raised the machine head. The employee was struck/pinched by the machine head fracturing three ribs.

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