# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Charter Steel Company
> OSHA SIR `20171010101` · 10/20/2017 · SAUKVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Steel Company
- **Location:** 1658 Cold Springs Road, SAUKVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53080
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hoisting a load of steel billets with a crane when the employee's right index and middle fingertips were pinched between the steel billets and the chain sling.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*