# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Alabama Catfish, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087226` · 8/7/2024 · UNIONTOWN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Alabama Catfish, LLC
- **Location:** 1260 Washington Street, UNIONTOWN, ALABAMA, 36786
- **NAICS:** 311710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 7, 2024, a contracted employee was operating a fish skinner that uses two rotating stones to skin catfish when fingers on her right hand were caught by the stones and severely injured, resulting in hospitalization. The employee sustained an open wound of a finger with damage to the nail/nailbed and an open fracture of the distal phalanx.

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