# Fractures at Pratt Industries
> OSHA SIR `2016087577` · 8/13/2016 · FORT WORTH, 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:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Pratt Industries
- **Location:** 3300 High River Rd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76155
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at the baler/hogger shredding up corrugated boxes when a jam occurred. The employee used a metal pipe to try and clear/unjam the hogger when his right hand was pinned between the pipe and hogger's door frame, fracturing his third, fourth, and fifth fingers.

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