# Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries at Greens Bayou pipe mill
> OSHA SIR `2025054643` · 5/17/2025 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Other tools, instruments, equipment  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Greens Bayou pipe mill
- **Location:** 13985 Industrial Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77015
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 17, 2025, at 8:30 a.m., an employee was placing a wooden chock under a pipe to secure it in place for welding. The combined weight of the pipe and chock caused the chock to crush the employee's left ring and middle fingertips against the floor, resulting in hospitalization.

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