# Crushing injuries at JLE Industries LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016043577` · 4/22/2016 · BENWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Plastic, PVC, or rubber pipes and tubing
- **Secondary source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** JLE Industries LLC
- **Location:** 748 McMechen Street, BENWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA, 26031
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 22, 2016, at approximately 7:05am, an employee was hospitalized after being injured while moving a plastic water line on I-beams.  The employee and a coworker were rolling a 14 inch diameter PVC pipe weighing approximately 300 lbs. and 15 feet in length across I-beam stands.  During the roll, the pipe slipped off the I-beam and the employee's thumb was pinched between the I-beam and the pipe resulting in cuts and crushing injuries to the left thumb.

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