# Fractures at Riega Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024098972` · 9/25/2024 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## 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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Augers  except conveyor
## Employer
- **Name:** Riega Foods
- **Location:** 8700 Elmwood Avenue, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64132
- **NAICS:** 311942
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the hopper and auger of a spice packing machine. The employee put the auger in reverse to clear a jam in the machine when their right index finger was caught in the auger, resulting in two fractures.

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