# Fractures at Eastern Wholesale Fence Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021542` · 2/19/2024 · CALVERTON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Boring, reaming, routing, notching machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Eastern Wholesale Fence Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 301 Scott Avenue, CALVERTON, NEW YORK, 11933
- **NAICS:** 423390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a notching machine. The bottom piece of the machine caught the employee's right little finger, causing an open fracture to the finger. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery.

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