# Fractures at WHOLE FOODS MARKET GROUP, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2018010103` · 1/4/2018 · POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
## Employer
- **Name:** WHOLE FOODS MARKET GROUP, INC.
- **Location:** 2700 NW 19th Street, POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA, 33069
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering the safety guard of a mixer with his right hand and pushing ingredients inside the mixer with his left hand when his left hand was caught and fractured between the mixer and the safety guard.

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