# Fractures at Planters Cotton Oil Mill Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032415` · 3/11/2018 · PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Planters Cotton Oil Mill Inc.
- **Location:** 2901 Planters Drive, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, 71601
- **NAICS:** 311224
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was cleaning the discharge chute on a seed cleaner when his hand came into contact with the moving chain, lacerating his right index and middle fingers and fracturing his index finger. He was hospitalized.

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