# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Coastal Mechanical Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017031998` · 3/2/2017 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Coastal Mechanical Services LLC
- **Location:** 601 E Rollins Street, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32803
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was throwing a 4-inch cast iron pipe into a garbage dumpster. The dumpster was full and the pipe came back and smashed his left hand ring finger. He was hospitalized for a severed tendon in the finger.

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