# Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries at Refresco Beverages
> OSHA SIR `2024032835` · 3/30/2024 · TRUESDALE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Refresco Beverages
- **Location:** 1410 East Veterans Memorial Parkway, TRUESDALE, MISSOURI, 63380
- **NAICS:** 312111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam in a palletizer machine. The machine cycled and his right hand was crushed between an empty pallet lift and the frame. He was hospitalized. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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