# Cuts and abrasions or bruises at Forterra Pipe & Precast
> OSHA SIR `2021109036` · 10/20/2021 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts and abrasions or bruises
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Forterra Pipe & Precast
- **Location:** 1500 Haul Road, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43207
- **NAICS:** 327332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a crane operator lower a 72-inch concrete pipe form and place it into a pipe machine. The employee's left middle and ring fingers were caught and severely lacerated/abraded between the form and the machine.

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