# Fractures at Sanderson Farms Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020076832` · 7/20/2020 · PALESTINE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Elevators
## Employer
- **Name:** Sanderson Farms Inc.
- **Location:** 320 Sanderson Farms Pkwy, PALESTINE, TEXAS, 75801
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading and unloading boxes of chickens onto a freight elevator. The elevator's doors struck the employee, breaking both arms.

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