# Fractures at Arden Engineering
> OSHA SIR `2020076834` · 7/20/2020 · BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS
## 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:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Arden Engineering
- **Location:** Route 3, BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS, 02184
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a bundle of PVC pipe links with a truck's tailgate when his hand was caught between the lift gate chain and the lift gate. His right index finger was fractured.

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