# Fractures at Ternium USA, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20171010470` · 10/31/2017 · SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ternium USA, Inc
- **Location:** 2500 Ron Bean Blvd, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, 71115
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was threading banding over the top of a coil and passing it between the coil and coil car when the turnstile moved. The employee's hand was then caught between the coil car and coil, smashing the hand and wrist and fracturing a finger.

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