# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Venture Contracting, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20191111793` · 11/12/2019 · WEST UNION, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Venture Contracting, LLC
- **Location:** unknown, WEST UNION, WEST VIRGINIA, 26456
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reattaching a thumb grapple to an excavator when he lost control of the hydraulic and his hand was pinned between the hydraulic and the thumb grapple. He suffered a severed tendon and broken finger, requiring hospitalization.

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