# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Brookhaven Pellets, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025087843` · 8/8/2025 · BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Augers  except conveyor
## Employer
- **Name:** Brookhaven Pellets, LLC
- **Location:** 912 W.L. Behan Rd, BROOKHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI, 39601
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing out a plugged auger on an activated pellet milling machine. The moving auger fractured and lacerated the employee's right arm, resulting in hospitalization.

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