# Fractures at Averitt Express Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018032704` · 3/19/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Elevators
## Employer
- **Name:** Averitt Express Inc
- **Location:** 5353 Westheimer RD, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77056
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making a delivery and was closing the door to a freight elevator at the customer location. The door came down faster than expected and caught his left hand between the two metal doors resulting in a fractured left index finger.

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