# Fractures at Gustav's Tool & Die Works
> OSHA SIR `20191212557` · 12/5/2019 · SEGUIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Lathes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Gustav's Tool & Die Works
- **Location:** 1503 N. Austin Street, SEGUIN, TEXAS, 78155
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a horizontal lathe when he attempted to change the tooling on the tail stock. The moving chuck caught his tooling, causing the tooling to rotate and strike his left hand. He broke his left hand and received several lacerations on his two middle fingers that required stitches.

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