# Fractures at BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `20181010252` · 10/4/2018 · POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION
- **Location:** 731 Highway 142, POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI, 63901
- **NAICS:** 333618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A flywheel machine cycled while an employee's hand was inside it, breaking his finger. He was hospitalized.

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