# Fractures at PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025077027` · 7/19/2025 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Lathes
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** PIPING TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTS, INC.
- **Location:** 3701 HOLMES RD, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77051
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a lathe in a machine shop. The rotating head of the lathe caught the employee's left glove, resulting in a compound open fracture to the left wrist and a laceration to left ear.

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