# Fractures at DIMENSION FABRICATORS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019021278` · 2/4/2019 · SCOTIA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** DIMENSION FABRICATORS, INC.
- **Location:** 2000 7TH ST., SCOTIA, NEW YORK, 12302
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a forklift to move reinforcing steel spirals and backed into a parked flatbed trailer. As the employee tried to free the forklift from the trailer his left hand was crushed between the forklift and the trailer. The employee's hand was fractured and lacerated and the employee was hospitalized.

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