# Fractures at Rent A Center East
> OSHA SIR `2018099335` · 9/10/2018 · HAMILTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Elevators, hoists, aerial lifts, personnel platforms-except truck-mounted, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rent A Center East
- **Location:** 1228 West Main Street Suite 106, HAMILTON, OHIO, 45013
- **NAICS:** 442110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a lift gate and engaged the gate's controls. As the lift approached the bed of a box truck, the employee's right wrist was caught between the control box and the lift. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right wrist and had surgery.

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