# Cuts, lacerations at Kohler Co.
> OSHA SIR `2017043521` · 4/18/2017 · SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Kohler Co.
- **Location:** N7650 Lake Shore Drive, SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN, 53083
- **NAICS:** 335312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to move a semi-assembled motor mounted on a frame chassis. The employee was walking backwards with the pallet jack in front when his right thumb was caught between the steering control of the pallet jack and the storage rack resulting in blunt force trauma and a deep tissue laceration.

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