# Fractures at Greif Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021010084` · 1/5/2021 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Greif Inc
- **Location:** 10850 Strang Rd., LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting the bottom plate pneumatic lifting cylinder on a pre-curl machine when the employee's finger was crushed between lift cylinder plates. The employee sustained a broken left index fingertip.

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