# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners (Rockies) LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171212164` · 12/22/2017 · STANLEY, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners (Rockies) LLC
- **Location:** 48 degrees 9'26.2" N / 102 degrees 42'2.3" W, STANLEY, NORTH DAKOTA, 58784
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a pig into a pig launcher and closing the end hatch on a vertical pipe. The hinged pig launcher hatch began to fall and the employee attempted to catch it with his right hand, which was crushed between the pipe flange and hatch. He suffered soft tissue damage to his right middle and ring fingers, requiring hospitalization.

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