# Fractures at Paccar Engine Company
> OSHA SIR `2019099783` · 9/18/2019 · COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Paccar Engine Company
- **Location:** 1000 Paccar Drive, COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, 39701
- **NAICS:** 333618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing an engine block onto a conveyor when their right thumb was pinched between the engine block and a clamp inside a machine. The employee sustained a laceration and an open fracture to the thumb.

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