# Fractures at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024109406` · 10/9/2024 · CINCINNATI, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 801 East Kemper Road, CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45246
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing plates in a forming press. The machine cycled and crushed her right arm, fracturing it.

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