# Crushing injuries at JEWEL FOOD STORES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017088261` · 8/28/2017 · MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Posts, bollards, moorings
## Employer
- **Name:** JEWEL FOOD STORES, INC.
- **Location:** 1955 WEST NORTH AVE., BUILDING A, MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS, 60160
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was parking a double pallet walker when his left pinky fingertip was caught and crushed between a safety bollard and the hand controls of the double pallet walker.

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