# Fractures at H & R Scrap Metal Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020077205` · 7/31/2020 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** H & R Scrap Metal Company Inc.
- **Location:** 900 W. Fond Du Lac Avenue, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53225
- **NAICS:** 333999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a wire stripping machine. The machine caught his glove and pulled in his hand. He suffered lacerations to his index and middle fingers and his thumb (which was split down the middle), as well as a broken bone.

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