# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at SnS Erectors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054523` · 5/13/2025 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Cranes  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** SnS Erectors, Inc.
- **Location:** 8705 DECKER LAKE DRIVE, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78724
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping reeve a luff cable for a luffing jib crane demobilization. He was guiding cable into the luffer sheaves when his glove caught on a greased portion of the cable. His left hand was pulled into a pinch point between the cable and a spreader bar. He suffered lacerations, a fracture, and a tendon injury to the hand.

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