# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Ferrellgas
> OSHA SIR `2024098600` · 9/16/2024 · TAVARES, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ferrellgas
- **Location:** 300 County Road 448, TAVARES, FLORIDA, 32778
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was monitoring a palletizer machine that stacks propane tanks when their shirt blew into the grippers on the palletizer. The employee used his right hand to brace himself and his hand was caught between the gripper and a propane tank resulting in a fracture, laceration and tendon injury to the right hand.

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