# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Mississippi Polymers, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016076908` · 7/28/2016 · CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mississippi Polymers, INC.
- **Location:** 2733 SOUTH HARPER ROAD, CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI, 38834
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a blender with the air-actuated discharge valve open for cleaning inside the blender. The employee's right hand was inside the opening with a rag. The switch that opened and closed the valve was bumped, and the valve gate closed on her right hand. The injury was just above the knuckles. She was hospitalized for surgery.

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