# Fractures at Chain Electric Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181212377` · 12/3/2018 · JACKSON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Chain Electric Company, Inc.
- **Location:** Power South Facility, JACKSON, ALABAMA, 36545
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was undoing a snag of wire splice hung up on a pole. The wire snagged the employee's left glove, pulling the employee's hand into the wire rollers; the employee's left thumb suffered several fractures.

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