# Crushing injuries at S & F CONCRETE CONTRACTORS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20171010480` · 10/31/2017 · WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** S & F CONCRETE CONTRACTORS, INC.
- **Location:** 81 Wyman Street, WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, 02451
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving steel reinforcing rods and associated supports with a skid steer when one of the employee's right-hand fingers was caught and crushed between a steel rod and the skid steer's grapple arm.

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