# Fractures at Midwest Production Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023043254` · 4/12/2023 · ZAHL, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Production Service, Inc.
- **Location:** Highway 85 and 86th Street NW, ZAHL, NORTH DAKOTA, 58856
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was switching the attachment on a pay loader from a bucket to forks. The employee was adjusting the fork width when the fork attachment pinched their right middle finger and fractured it.

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