# Fractures at Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020043033` · 4/2/2020 · GRAMERCY, 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:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC
- **Location:** 1230 South 5th Ave., GRAMERCY, LOUISIANA, 70052
- **NAICS:** 311312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating package filling equipment when he attempted to loosen clumped sugar in the equipment piping and injured his right hand. He was hospitalized with fractures to four fingers on his right hand.

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