# Fractures at WV Great Barrel Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023032390` · 3/16/2023 · CALDWELL, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Wood chips, sawdust
- **Secondary source:** Washers, dryers, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** WV Great Barrel Company LLC
- **Location:** 546 Mountain Home Drive, CALDWELL, WEST VIRGINIA, 24925
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning sawdust from a machine when a wood chip lodged in the vacuum dust collection system and caused it to stop. When the wood chip broke loose, the dust collection system restarted, causing a piece of wood to contact the employee's left hand. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left thumb and a laceration.

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