# Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified at Waste Management
> OSHA SIR `20171110968` · 11/15/2017 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Benches, workbenches, saw horses
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management
- **Location:** 7532 Olympia Trail, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76137
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a residential route picking up bulk items in a trash rear-load truck when his left middle finger was caught and crushed between a gap in a saw horse. The side of his finger was also cut open from the knuckle to the fingernail.

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