# Crushing injuries at Oak Steel Supply Company
> OSHA SIR `2016021293` · 2/11/2016 · CHICAGO RIDGE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Oak Steel Supply Company
- **Location:** 6601 W. 99th Place, CHICAGO RIDGE, ILLINOIS, 60415
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading coils from a truck using an overhead crane and was injured when his finger was crushed between the rigging coil tongs and the coils that were being picked up by the rigging.

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