# Fractures at Turning Water Industries Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020065915` · 6/24/2020 · MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Turning Water Industries Corporation
- **Location:** South Central Waste Water Treatment Plant, MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, 32940
- **NAICS:** 924110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unbolting two adjoining pieces of a steel walkway/platform frame on wood blocks at the bottom of the clarifier. He reached over and around the steel member, grabbing it with his left hand. The member fell approximately 1- to 3-inches, pinning his left index finger against a wood block and fracturing it.

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