# Fractures at Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20241010131` · 10/30/2024 · OAKLAND, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ajinomoto Foods North America, Inc.
- **Location:** 10646 Hwy. 51, OAKLAND, MISSISSIPPI, 38948
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing a sauce pump to be sanitized. The pump cycled as he was opening it and his right index fingertip was caught and fractured by the gears.

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