# Fractures at Ruiz Foods
> OSHA SIR `2017109455` · 10/2/2017 · DENISON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
## Employer
- **Name:** Ruiz Foods
- **Location:** 2410 Texoma Dr., DENISON, TEXAS, 75020
- **NAICS:** 424420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an industrial mixer to mix filler when he attempted to wipe the filler off the mixer. His right hand went into the opening and was struck by one of the mixer paddles, lacerating and fracturing it. The mixer was guarded at the time.

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