# Avulsions, enucleations at Nivert Metal Supply, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065471` · 6/15/2017 · THROOP, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Nivert Metal Supply, Inc.
- **Location:** 1100 Marshwood Rd, THROOP, PENNSYLVANIA, 18512
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inspecting the blower above a roll-up door while standing in a scissor lift (15 feet high) when a bridge crane struck the scissor lift, knocking it over into a storage rack. The employee fell onto the storage rack and suffered a fingertip avulsion, bruised ribs, and lacerations.

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