# Fractures at Empire Acero, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024076377` · 7/15/2024 · RICHMOND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Fasteners  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Empire Acero, LLC
- **Location:** 24655 Bellaire Blvd, RICHMOND, TEXAS, 77406
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a piece of bracing to be welded. The bracing slipped and struck the employee's left hand fracturing the ring finger. The employee was hospitalized.

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