# Fractures at RES AMERICA CONSTRUCTION INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021031858` · 3/1/2021 · EDEN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Girders, beams, structural steel
## Employer
- **Name:** RES AMERICA CONSTRUCTION INC.
- **Location:** 2737 US HWY 83 N, EDEN, TEXAS, 76837
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting one of the beams in a forklift when their left thumb became caught between the two support beams, resulting in bone fractures and a skin laceration.

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