# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Kloeckner Metals
> OSHA SIR `2018032772` · 3/21/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Material and personnel hoists
## Employer
- **Name:** Kloeckner Metals
- **Location:** 12900 S. Metron Drive, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60633
- **NAICS:** 333515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pressing the safety latch on a hoist hook and lowering a sheet lifter when his left thumb was caught between the safety latch and eye hook of the sheet lifter.

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