# Cuts, lacerations at Chart Industries
> OSHA SIR `20191111752` · 11/12/2019 · BEASLEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Dies, molds, patterns
## Employer
- **Name:** Chart Industries
- **Location:** 9660 Grunwald Road, BEASLEY, TEXAS, 77417
- **NAICS:** 339999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a stuck 100-pound fiberglass fan blade from a mold. A wedge between the blade and the mold came out, and the blade dropped down and lacerated his right ring fingertip. He was hospitalized.

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