# Fractures at Chain Electric
> OSHA SIR `2020043006` · 4/2/2020 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## 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:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Chain Electric
- **Location:** 5502 CO RD 6300, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79416
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were using a front-end loader to load equipment onto a trailer when the equipment shifted, striking an employee's hand and trapping it between the equipment and the trailer. The employee sustained a broken right pinky finger that required surgery and received stitches on the right ring finger.

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