# Fractures at US Water Service Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025065350` · 6/5/2025 · PENNINGTON, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Pumps  except oil well
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** US Water Service Corporation
- **Location:** 311 Pennington Rocky Hill RD, PENNINGTON, NEW JERSEY, 08534
- **NAICS:** 924110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee noticed a polymer mixer pump was shaking and went to troubleshoot it. The employee was working to rotate the shaft of the mixer pump when the shaft started and grabbed his glove. He sustained a compound fracture to the left thumb.

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