# Fractures at JPC Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016042770` · 4/2/2016 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Animal products-nonfood, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** JPC Group, Inc.
- **Location:** Broad Street, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19148
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting out bricks as part of demolition activities when several courses of brick slid down a steel beam and struck his hand, lacerating and fracturing it.

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