# Crushing injuries at Rig Runner
> OSHA SIR `2023010750` · 1/24/2023 · YORKTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Grates
## Employer
- **Name:** Rig Runner
- **Location:** Lincke Road & Kubala Store Road, YORKTOWN, TEXAS, 78164
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing the center steel on an oilfield drilling rig. The employee was untying the metal grate while kneeling within it; the metal grate fell on the employee's left-hand fingers and crushed them. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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