# Crushing injuries at Sky Power Turbine Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043473` · 4/18/2017 · HALLSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Sky Power Turbine Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 2400 FM 3251, HALLSVILLE, TEXAS, 75650
- **NAICS:** 333611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee, who was observing a boring operation taking place inside a turbine shell, was sitting on planks (located on the horizontal joints of the turbine) and repositioning in order to stand inside the turbine where it would not be slippery when the boring bar caught and crushed the employee's right thumb.

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