# Fractures at GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company
> OSHA SIR `2021097878` · 9/13/2021 · GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Turning handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company
- **Location:** 660 Barkeyville Road, GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA, 16127
- **NAICS:** 336510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a de-tensioner to loosen a bolt that was installed in a locomotive engine casing. The reaction arm slipped off the main bolt and caught the employee's hand against the engine block. The employee sustained fractured bones in the hand that required hospitalization and surgery.

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