# Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries at R-Tech Refractories Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024054600` · 5/25/2024 · LENA, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
## Employer
- **Name:** R-Tech Refractories Inc
- **Location:** 275 Rodemacher Rd, Lena, LA 71447, LENA, LOUISIANA, 71447
- **NAICS:** 327120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was filling a rocking dumpster with refractory rubble and disposing of it into a bigger dumpster. The rocking dumpster was on the forks of a forklift. His left hand was on the bottom of the dumpster as he went to pour the rubble into a bigger dumpster below. When the rocking dumpster tipped over his left index, middle, and ring fingers were crushed between the dumpster and the forklift forks.

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