# Fractures at Summerford Pallet Company
> OSHA SIR `2023076027` · 7/7/2023 · POPLARVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Summerford Pallet Company
- **Location:** 119 Industrial Park Drive, POPLARVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, 39470
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding a multiple head trim saw with wooden boards. A board jammed between two chains. As the employee tried to clear the jam, their right index finger was caught by the machine and broken.

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