# Fractures at Timber Wolf Excavating, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022098332` · 9/21/2022 · BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Container caps, lids, covers
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Timber Wolf Excavating, LLC
- **Location:** Broken Arrow Public Schools, BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA, 74012
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was capping off an abandoned 6-inch water line. The valve controlling the flow to the line was turned off, but the valve wasn't working properly, so a small amount of water was leaking past. Water that was draining from the pipe built up pressure after the cap was put on. The employee was taping a wrap over the pipe when the cap blew out of the valve and struck his left hand against another section of the pipe, resulting in three fractured fingers, including a compound fracture of the little finger.

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