# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Texas AirSystems
> OSHA SIR `2024075970` · 7/3/2024 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Fan and turbine parts
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas AirSystems
- **Location:** 4023 Oak Lawn, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75219
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance on an HVAC unit and unhooking pressure gauges when their right hand contacted rotating fan blades. The employee sustained fractures and lacerations to the hand and fingers that required stitches and surgery on the ring finger.

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