# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2023043455` · 4/18/2023 · WESTLAKE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
- **Location:** 4401 HIGHWAY 108, WESTLAKE, LOUISIANA, 70669
- **NAICS:** 211111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was separating a valve stem from an actuator stem by removing two-piece split nuts that hold it together. The actuator shaft shifted, causing the top half of the split nut to impact and pinch the employee's right thumb against the frame. The employee was hospitalized.

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