# Fractures at Brand Energy Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2016043165` · 4/15/2016 · PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Brand Energy Solutions
- **Location:** Blasting and painting yard, PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA, 70764
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were offloading pipe onto a pipe stand. An employee's hand was resting on the pipe stand and when the pipe came down, his hand was pinched between the pipe and the pipe stand, breaking his left index finger.

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