# Crushing injuries at Stewart Welding &  Machine, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171212096` · 12/20/2017 · RANKIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Stewart Welding &  Machine, Inc.
- **Location:** Ajax Field, RANKIN, TEXAS, 79778
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a standpipe in an articulating lift when four of the employee's left-hand fingers were crushed between the rail of the lift and the pipe, requiring hospitalization.

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