# Fractures at Abbott Nutrition
> OSHA SIR `2023109140` · 10/3/2023 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## 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:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Abbott Nutrition
- **Location:** 585 Cleveland Avenue, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43215
- **NAICS:** 311514
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a foreign object from a surge tank on the line when their right hand contacted the agitator wheel. The employee's thumb was fractured and lacerated.

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