# Fractures at MCG Workforce Solutions, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021032225` · 3/15/2021 · MOBILE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
- **Source:** Sledges, sledgehammers
## Employer
- **Name:** MCG Workforce Solutions, LLC
- **Location:** Blakeley Boat Works a Cooper Company, MOBILE, ALABAMA, 36603
- **NAICS:** 561330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was controlling a come-a-long on one side of a flat plate while another worker was using a 20-pound steel hammer to strike the plate and move it into position inside the engine room of a vessel which was on shore/dry dock. The temporary employee was manually shaking the plate to see if it would slide down under its own weight when his left hand was struck by the hammer. The injured employee was wearing protective leather gloves at the time. His middle finger was broken and lacerated, the ring finger was also lacerated.

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