# Fractures at Southeast Texas Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023054210` · 5/10/2023 · BUNA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southeast Texas Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 35911 Hwy 96 South, BUNA, TEXAS, 77612
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repositioning a 24-inch-by-52.5-inch-pipe by hand when it slipped from the burn bed discharge rails. The employee was hospitalized for a right ring and little finger laceration and fracture that required surgery.

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