# Cuts, lacerations at Fedex Freight, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099127` · 9/4/2018 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Fedex Freight, Inc.
- **Location:** 4201 Martin Luther King Blvd., LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79404
- **NAICS:** 484122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hitching a trailer onto his truck. His thumb was caught under the hitch, suffering a laceration.

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