# Fractures at Welspun Tubular, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016010925` · 1/30/2016 · LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Crowbars
- **Secondary source:** Floor, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Welspun Tubular, Inc.
- **Location:** 8200 FRAZIER PIKE, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, 72206
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pry bar to guide the base of a jib crane over the bolts in the floor. The base was suspended by straps attached to a forklift. The base slipped in the straps and pinned the employee's right hand between the pry bar and the floor, breaking his right index finger and requiring hospitalization.

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