# Fractures at Cypress Contracting LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018054969` · 5/21/2018 · FLORENCE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Construction debris
- **Secondary source:** Backhoes, trackhoes
## Employer
- **Name:** Cypress Contracting LLC
- **Location:** Hermitage Drive Sidewalk Project, FLORENCE, ALABAMA, 35630
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hand loading demolition concrete into a backhoe bucket. When he adjusted the broken concrete in the bucket his right hand was caught between the concrete and the bucket, cutting and breaking his right index finger. He was hospitalized.

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