# Fractures at TESLA ENERGY OPERATIONS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024042910` · 4/2/2024 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Lathes
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** TESLA ENERGY OPERATIONS, INC.
- **Location:** 1 Tesla Road, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78725
- **NAICS:** 221118
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an emery cloth and a lathe to polish pins when their glove was pulled into a pinch point between the spinning pin and the cloth. This resulted in a laceration to the left index finger and a metacarpal fracture requiring hospitalization.

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