# Cuts, lacerations at R & J Trucking, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017076818` · 7/21/2017 · OBERLIN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** R & J Trucking, Inc
- **Location:** 43502 Oberlin Elyria Road, OBERLIN, OHIO, 44074
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 21, 2017, at approximately 8:30 a.m., an employee and a coworker were pulling a dump bed out of a tractor trailer dump truck when the employee's right middle finger was caught and lacerated between the dump bed and the truck's tailgate. She was hospitalized.

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