# Fractures at Lexicon, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022087131` · 8/11/2022 · LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Benches, workbenches, saw horses
## Employer
- **Name:** Lexicon, Inc.
- **Location:** 8900 Fourche Dam Pike, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, 72206
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 10:00 p.m. on August 11, 2022, an employee was welding beams on sawhorses when one of the beams fell. It crushed the employee's left hand against another beam, causing multiple displaced fractures to the thumb and three fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

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