# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Preferred Beef Group, LP
> OSHA SIR `20221210499` · 12/2/2022 · BOOKER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Preferred Beef Group, LP
- **Location:** 910 E. Industrial Road, BOOKER, TEXAS, 79005
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working from a ladder to clean water nozzles on a wastewater screening system when he lost his footing and slipped downward toward a discharge auger. The employee sustained tissue and bone damage to the right middle fingertip.

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