# Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries at Westlake Pipe & Fittings
> OSHA SIR `2025088124` · 8/15/2025 · BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Westlake Pipe & Fittings
- **Location:** 401 Industrial Park Rd, BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, 38829
- **NAICS:** 325110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were setting up an 8-inch sewer PVC pipe line. An employee was removing/rolling a scrap PVC pipe off the conveyor when their little fingertip was crushed between the end of the PVC pipe and the post for the overhead bus stop guard (fixed guard). The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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