# Fractures at REPUBLIC ENGINEERED PRODUCTS INC.
> OSHA SIR `2018032304` · 3/8/2018 · BLASDELL, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** REPUBLIC ENGINEERED PRODUCTS INC.
- **Location:** 3049 Lakeshore Road, BLASDELL, NEW YORK, 14219
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hooking up two bundles to an overhead hoist when the operator raised the hoist, pulling up slack in the chain. The employee's thumb was then pinched and fractured between the chain and the bundle.

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