# Fractures at EDF Renewable Services
> OSHA SIR `2015053219` · 5/27/2015 · HEREFORD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Turning handtools-power not determined, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Walls
## Employer
- **Name:** EDF Renewable Services
- **Location:** 4501 FM 1259, HEREFORD, TEXAS, 79045
- **NAICS:** 221115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a fastener tool. While checking the tightness of bolts, he lost balance and pinched his right hand pinky finger between the fastener tool and the wall. Employee suffered an open fracture of the right hand pinky finger and was hospitalized.

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