# Fractures at Rigid Global Buildings
> OSHA SIR `20191011340` · 10/31/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## 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:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Rigid Global Buildings
- **Location:** 18933 Aldine Westfield, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77073
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going to lift steel products using a chain sling and an overhead bridge crane. The employee's left thumb was pinched between two chain pieces when the crane started lifting the product. He sustained a laceration and fracture of the left thumb.

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