# Fractures at James Marine Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016109798` · 10/18/2016 · PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** James Marine Inc
- **Location:** 4040 Clarks River Rd., PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, 42003
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was cutting sections of a vertical pipe (shaft for a valve). When he pushed the last cut section out of the way, the pipe fell straight down and pinned his fingers between the pipe welds, breaking his right-hand middle and index fingers.

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