# Fractures at TCI of Alabama, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018088913` · 8/28/2018 · PELL CITY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** TCI of Alabama, LLC
- **Location:** 101 Parkway East, PELL CITY, ALABAMA, 35125
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to remove a compressed can from a can crushing baler machine when the equipment's retaining pin malfunctioned and became loose, allowing the head plate to fall and crush the employee's right hand. The employee's right hand was fractured.

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