# Crushing injuries at C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS
> OSHA SIR `2016032251` · 3/15/2016 · NEWBURGH, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** C&S WHOLESALE GROCERS
- **Location:** 1500 CORPORATE BOULEVARD, NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, 12550
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 3/15/16, at 8:18 AM, an employee was operating a dock stacker when his thumb became pinched between the stacker and a bollard while leaving the staging area for automation. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for crushing injuries to his thumb.

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