# Fractures at AAON, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065532` · 6/16/2017 · LONGVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by discharged object or substance
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** AAON, Inc.
- **Location:** 203 Gum Springs Rd, LONGVIEW, TEXAS, 75602
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was expanding tubing using a 3/8-inch tubing expanding machine when a bearing bullet broke off in the tube. Pressurized air caused the broken bullet piece to eject and strike the employee's right hand, breaking his index finger.

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