# Fractures at TW Metals Company
> OSHA SIR `2024054158` · 5/11/2024 · CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors roller, wheel
## Employer
- **Name:** TW Metals Company
- **Location:** 235 Tubeway Drive, CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS, 60188
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were moving 5'' x 1'' x 20' metal tubes from a forklift to a nonpowered rolling conveyor when their right hand became caught between the rollers and a tube. They sustained fractures to their ring and middle fingers requiring surgery.

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