# Fractures and burns at Modern Machine Works, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161110749` · 11/16/2016 · BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and burns
## Cause
- **Event:** Explosion, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Modern Machine Works, Inc.
- **Location:** 921 East Front Avenue, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, 58502
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a pin in a boom point that had been chilled in liquid oxygen. When the employee removed the pin with a slide hammer, an ignition occurred and caused the pin to shoot out of the hole and to strike the employee. The employee suffered burns to both hands and a broken thumb.

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