# Fractures at Roto-Rooter Services Company
> OSHA SIR `2022065259` · 6/16/2022 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ratchet drivers-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Roto-Rooter Services Company
- **Location:** 5020 Tampa West Blvd, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33634
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was securing a backhoe to a trailer using ratchets. The employee's left index finger got stuck in the ratchet resulting in an open fracture.

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