# Fractures at Team Industrial Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021053937` · 5/13/2021 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Team Industrial Services, Inc.
- **Location:** Lyondell Houston Refinery, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77017
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping perform an inflatable line stop. During the line stop installation, the launch tube slid into the open valve, pinching the employee's left thumb between the locking clamp and the set point stopping block. The thumb was broken and lacerated.

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