# Crushing injuries at TYSON FOODS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2018043299` · 4/6/2018 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TYSON FOODS, INC.
- **Location:** 600 BERRY STREET, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72764
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to manually rotate a shackle that was turned in the wrong direction when his right hand was caught in the in-line shackle turner to his right, crushing his right index finger. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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