# Fractures at Skookum Contract Services
> OSHA SIR `2020087788` · 8/18/2020 · FORT RILEY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Lawn mowers-riding
## Employer
- **Name:** Skookum Contract Services
- **Location:** 317 Marshall ave, FORT RILEY, KANSAS, 66442
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unclogging a riding lawn mower. The mower's impeller cut the employee's left middle finger at the knuckle, causing a fracture and ligament damage that required surgery.

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