# Dislocation of joints at Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022032546` · 3/21/2022 · SANTA ROSA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Dislocation of joints
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged or flying object, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** High winds, gusts, turbulence
## Employer
- **Name:** Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc
- **Location:** 2.5 Miles West Highway 107, SANTA ROSA, TEXAS, 78593
- **NAICS:** 115115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping retrieve a wind-damaged sign. The sign was in the bed of a pickup truck, with the employee holding it down, when a gust of wind picked it up. The sign fall back onto his finger and dislocated it.

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