# Fractures at Best Chicago Meat Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017010282` · 1/10/2017 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Meat grinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Best Chicago Meat Company, LLC
- **Location:** 4649 W. Armitage Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing residual meat from the paddles of a grinding machine when the machine cycled and broke his right hand. The machine was on at the time of the incident.

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