# Fractures at Mueller Copper Tube Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020054604` · 5/18/2020 · FULTON, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mueller Copper Tube Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Mueller Rd., FULTON, MISSISSIPPI, 38843
- **NAICS:** 331421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a machine in automatic mode. Copper and scrap material built up in the machine and the employee used his left hand to clear the copper and scrap. When the copper and scrap was removed, the machine cycled and the employee's left index finger was caught between a copper tube and the machine. As a result, the employee's left index finger was fractured. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

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