# Fractures at Mueller, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20191010964` · 10/21/2019 · OAK GROVE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Mueller, Inc
- **Location:** 6914 Highway 2, OAK GROVE, LOUISIANA, 71263
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving scraps on an assembly line. She was sitting down beside the conveyor belt with her hand resting on the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt is automatic and turned on. Her cotton glove was caught in the belt, resulting in the left index finger getting caught between the chain and the frame. She was hospitalized with a lacerated/broken left index finger.

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