# Crushing injuries at PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20171211772` · 12/12/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Dies, molds, patterns
## Employer
- **Name:** PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC.
- **Location:** 3701 HOLMES RD, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77051
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While cleaning the expanding machine, an employee was about to replace the dies when he smashed his left thumb between the dies. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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