# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Sherwin Williams
> OSHA SIR `2025054813` · 5/21/2025 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Sherwin Williams
- **Location:** 2121 New World Drive, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43207
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance technician was troubleshooting the pail lid crimper on the production line in the filling department. The sensor activated and the crimper came down on the technician's hand, causing a fracture and laceration to his left middle fingertip.

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