# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at McKee Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024076947` · 7/31/2024 · GENTRY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers food and beverage
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** McKee Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 555 McKee Drive, GENTRY, ARKANSAS, 72734
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a butterfly valve on top of a sugar mixer when his right hand was crushed by the valve. The employee sustained fractures, tendon damage, and stitches to the palm on the right hand. The valve was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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