# Fractures at Smithfield Farmland, Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2018099121` · 9/4/2018 · MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Farmland, Corp.
- **Location:** 1220 N. SIXTH ST., MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS, 61462
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lubricating a shaft on a drum machine when the drum released onto the shaft, crushing and fracturing the employee's right index finger. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

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