# Fractures at Quality Labor Management
> OSHA SIR `2017087308` · 8/1/2017 · LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Switchboards, switches, fuses
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Labor Management
- **Location:** AMD Hospital, LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA, 70605
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding the end of a measuring tape near the base of an 800-pound switch gear that was on uneven ground. He was helping to measure the switch gear to relocate it when it teetered on the uneven ground and struck one of his left-hand fingers, fracturing it.

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