# Fractures and dislocations at Williams Brother Construction Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017087697` · 8/11/2017 · ARLINGTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and dislocations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Bridges, dams, locks
## Employer
- **Name:** Williams Brother Construction Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 2019 Vrinker Ct., ARLINGTON, TEXAS, 76011
- **NAICS:** 236115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing two splice plates for connection to a beam when the bottom splice plate fell open and onto a J-hook. His left-hand fingertips were pinched and fractured between the edge of the J-hook and the concrete bridge deck, and his left thumb was dislocated.

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