# Fractures at Symmco, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032099` · 3/7/2017 · SYKESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Symmco, Inc.
- **Location:** 40 Park Street, SYKESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15865
- **NAICS:** 332117
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a lathe to polish a twenty pound pin. The pin came out of the lathe chuck and struck his left middle finger. The employee was hospitalized for surgery on the fractured finger.

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