# Cuts, lacerations at Midwest Air Technologies, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016043146` · 4/14/2016 · ROMEOVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Air Technologies, Inc
- **Location:** 821 Bluff Road, ROMEOVILLE, ILLINOIS, 60446
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a powered industrial vehicle when she lost balance and grabbed onto the throttle. When she grabbed the throttle, she drove into a wall, smashing her leg between a rack and the vehicle. She suffered a large laceration that required surgery.

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