# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Planters Cotton Oil Mill Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025087911` · 8/11/2025 · PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Balers, baggers
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Planters Cotton Oil Mill Inc.
- **Location:** 2901 Planters Drive, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, 71601
- **NAICS:** 311223
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was testing a limit switch on a bale bagger. The bagger was activated and moved forward about 9 inches, pinning the employee's right hand. He was hospitalized with a broken thumb and a laceration to the hand.

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