# Fractures at Hussmann Services Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016087576` · 8/13/2016 · BEAUMONT, TEXAS
## 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:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Hussmann Services Corporation
- **Location:** HEB, BEAUMONT, TEXAS, 77706
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a 300-pound refrigeration compressor from the tailgate of a pickup truck to a steel dolly with a helper when the employee's finger was caught between the compressor and the dolly. The employee suffered a bone fracture of the right pinky finger and an open wound on the top and bottom of the pinky.

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