# Crushing injuries at ALDI Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `2018066251` · 6/24/2018 · SAXONBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **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:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** ALDI Distribution Center
- **Location:** 6000 North Noah Drive, SAXONBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 16056
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was backing a center control pallet jack into product and struck racking crushing the employee's right thumb.

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