# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Gulf Machine Shop, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054071` · 5/1/2025 · LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Shearing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Gulf Machine Shop, Inc.
- **Location:** 5337 E. Broad Street, LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA, 70615
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a sheer machine when his left hand contacted the cutting edge and was crushed. The employee sustained fractures and lacerations to his index and middle fingers.

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