# Fractures at NCI Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019076735` · 7/3/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** NCI Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 7301 Fairview St., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77041
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to lift and move a 25-foot, 1,897-pound structural beam from a conveyor system with a crane. He was using a lifting chain to make the lift when the thumb on his left hand was caught between the chain and the structural beam, resulting in a thumb fracture.

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