# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at Kemper Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2025066264` · 6/30/2025 · STANLEY, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
- **Secondary source:** Dump trucks
## Employer
- **Name:** Kemper Construction Company
- **Location:** 4th Ave SE and 4th St E, STANLEY, NORTH DAKOTA, 58784
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing near a dump truck, watching as it dumped a load of rocks. When the end dump was put down, the employee noticed there was a rock stuck in its tailgate and lifted the tailgate so the rock would come out. The rock fell out and the tailgate caught his left ring finger. The finger was lacerated and broken. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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