# Cuts, lacerations at Rotating Machinery Services
> OSHA SIR `2016043207` · 4/17/2016 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Crowbars
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rotating Machinery Services
- **Location:** 4300 SW 42nd Ave., FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33314
- **NAICS:** 333249
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting workers on a machine when his thumb was caught and cut between the machine and a crowbar. The employee was hospitalized and required stitches.

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