# Fractures at The Beistle Company
> OSHA SIR `20191010570` · 10/9/2019 · SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** The Beistle Company
- **Location:** 1 Beistle Plaza, SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17257
- **NAICS:** 322299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee operating a tiara machine began to jog (actuate) the machine. The foil band did not feed through the cutter into the mandrel. The employee was attempting to straighten the band when the employee's right third finger was caught by the cutter, resulting in a fracture and laceration to the fingertip. The employee was hospitalized.

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