# Crushing injuries at Precast Specialties LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018066373` · 6/26/2018 · FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Utility and telephone poles
## Employer
- **Name:** Precast Specialties LLC
- **Location:** 3898 Selvitz Road, FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA, 34981
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing dunnage between concrete telephone poles. A pole was lowered onto another pole by crane, and the tip of the employee's right index finger was crushed.

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