# Fractures at Kloeckner Metals Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20191213071` · 12/20/2019 · ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA
## 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:** Metal plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Kloeckner Metals Corporation
- **Location:** 2005 Grassland Parkway, ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA, 30005
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving the scrap skeleton of a steel plate when his thumb was caught between the scrap bin and the steel plate as it slid into place. His right thumb was fractured.

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