# Fractures at Kiswire Pine Bluff, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065400` · 6/13/2017 · PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** Kiswire Pine Bluff, Inc.
- **Location:** 5100 Industrial Dr. South, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, 71602
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was showing a coworker how to flip an empty spool (3ft by 1ft). The spool was on the tip of his steel-toe boot when it slipped off and fell on his right hand, lacerating it and breaking his right middle finger.

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