# Fractures at Performance Contractors Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032601` · 3/19/2025 · BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Parts and materials  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hoists, lifts  overhead, cable
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Contractors Inc.
- **Location:** Structural Fabrication Yard, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, 78521
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crew was using a chain fall system to rig up a hard stop (metal structural support weighing 695 lbs.). The injured employee was guiding it into position. The hard stop shifted and their right hand was caught between the suspended hard stop and the adjacent structural wall, resulting in fractured ring and little fingers.

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