# Fractures at Stanley Black and Decker
> OSHA SIR `2018099399` · 9/11/2018 · SEDALIA, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Dies, molds, patterns
## Employer
- **Name:** Stanley Black and Decker
- **Location:** 1500 Waterloo Drive, SEDALIA, MISSOURI, 65301
- **NAICS:** 332439
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a die on a press. He had removed the bottom half of the die and loosened the clamp on the top die, and was sliding the top half of the die to the right of the press when the top half fell about 6 inches onto his right hand. His middle and ring fingers were broken.

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