# Cuts, lacerations at O'Neal Steel, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023064857` · 6/1/2023 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** O'Neal Steel, LLC
- **Location:** 4530 Messer Airport Hwy, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35222
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was separating two pieces of steel tubing from a bundle of four. The tubing fell; the employee's left thumb was caught between two pieces of it, and he suffered a laceration that included a ligament in the thumb. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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