# Fractures at ELENS AND MAICHIN ROOFING AND SHEET METAL, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20181011171` · 10/30/2018 · MIDLOTHIAN, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ELENS AND MAICHIN ROOFING AND SHEET METAL, INC.
- **Location:** 15203 Pulaski Road, MIDLOTHIAN, ILLINOIS, 60445
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 30, 2018, an employee was working with a crane, trying to remove lifting forks from a pallet. The employee's left hand was crushed and fractured between the lifting forks and the post supporting the stowed boom. The employee was hospitalized.

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