# Fractures at Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022108767` · 10/5/2022 · SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Deep East Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- **Location:** Pole Yard P.O. Box 736, SAN AUGUSTINE, TEXAS, 75972
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a 45-foot pole onto a digger using a pole cradle to lift the rear of the pole when his left thumb was caught and broken. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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