# Crushing injuries at HRP Brownsville, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019054611` · 5/6/2019 · BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Scrap metal
## Employer
- **Name:** HRP Brownsville, LLC
- **Location:** 16200 Joe Garza Sr Road, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, 78521
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to move pieces of scrap metal. When the magnet crane was loading the  scrap metal, the employee's left ring finger was caught and crushed between two pieces of scrap metal. The employee was hospitalized.

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