# Open wounds, n.e.c. at Alabama Power Company
> OSHA SIR `2015108122` · 10/30/2015 · BUCKS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Open wounds, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Alabama Power Company
- **Location:** 15300 HWY 43 N., BUCKS, ALABAMA, 36512
- **NAICS:** 221119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was relocating a tool cart.  While backing it down a ramp, he caught his finger between the cart and a steel column causing an open fracture to his right middle finger.

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