# Fractures at Meade Electric Company, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018032296` · 3/7/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations
## Employer
- **Name:** Meade Electric Company, Inc
- **Location:** N. Hoyne Ave. & W. Ainslie St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60625
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a gas service/main and was in a trench standing on the gas main to push it down. His hand was on the lip of the excavation while an excavator operator was moving a road plate several inches. The operator put the road plate down, catching and breaking the employee's thumb between the excavation lip and the road plate.

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