# Fractures at FMC Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2015085899` · 8/18/2015 · WHITSETT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** FMC Technologies
- **Location:** Guajillo 11th South, WHITSETT, TEXAS, 78075
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was being lifted by an aerial lift to repair a wellhead. The employee's left thumb got crushed and fractured between the aerial lift and the wellhead.

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