# Fractures at Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2021097951` · 9/15/2021 · PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Step ladders
## Employer
- **Name:** Ball Metal Beverage Container Corporation
- **Location:** 140 Industrial Drive, PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18640
- **NAICS:** 332431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was stepping down from a step ladder, their right middle finger got caught between the employee's tool holder and the ladder. The employee's fingernail was removed and the finger was fractured. The employee was hospitalized.

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