# Fractures at Plastipak Packaging, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032804` · 3/28/2017 · PINEVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Plastipak Packaging, Inc.
- **Location:** 4101 PARDUE ROAD, PINEVILLE, LOUISIANA, 71360
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling out a strapper from the home position when the strapper came loose, striking the employee's right middle finger against a stationary frame. The employee suffered a broken right middle finger and was hospitalized.

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