# Fractures at Piping Technology & Products
> OSHA SIR `2016087698` · 8/17/2016 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Material and personnel hoists
## Employer
- **Name:** Piping Technology & Products
- **Location:** 3701 holmes Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77051
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rigging to lift a spring can that weighed approximately 250 pounds using a hoist hook. His left hand entered the hoist hook's point of operation, crushing and breaking his left thumb.

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