# Fractures at Willow Creek Co., LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018010924` · 1/29/2018 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Construction, logging, and mining machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Willow Creek Co., LLC
- **Location:** 419 South Oak St., PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was securing a bell hook by wrapping a strap around the A-frame of a side boom when the operator moved the winch, causing the strap to fasten around the A-frame and the winch mounting bracket. The employee's left hand was then caught between mounting bracket and A-frame. The employee suffered a broken left hand, a ring finger compound exposure, and broken middle finger.

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