# Fractures at W. Silver, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019088461` · 8/16/2019 · VINTON, 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:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** W. Silver, Inc.
- **Location:** 9059 Doniphan Dr., VINTON, TEXAS, 79821
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 6:15 p.m. on August 16, 2019, an employee was performing a change-over from one product to the next in a mill area. While the employee was installing one of the conveyors, an open metal cover closed, hitting his left hand and breaking his index and middle fingers.

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