# Fractures at Zekelman Industires, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191111757` · 11/12/2019 · WHEATLAND, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Zekelman Industires, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Council Avenue, WHEATLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, 16161
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a 55-gallon drum into a galvanizing trough with the assistance of a cab-operated crane. As the drum was dumping, the employee's thumb was pinched between the drum and the galvanizing trough. The employee suffered a broken left thumb that required surgery.

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