# Crushing injuries at Merit Water Services
> OSHA SIR `2023054592` · 5/23/2023 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Merit Water Services
- **Location:** WTH 22-15 WP3 FM1379 and hwy 158 East of Midland, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79706
- **NAICS:** 221310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unrolling plastic prepping for work loading and tried to push a bullet into a hole. His left thumb was crushed between the bullet and the plate.

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