# Fractures at TYSON FOODS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2020098473` · 9/5/2020 · 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TYSON FOODS, INC.
- **Location:** 5505 JEFFERSON PARKWAY, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, 71602
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually adjusting a block of frozen product on a conveyor, when his right middle finger was caught between the block and the frame causing a fracture and laceration to his right middle finger that required surgery.

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