# Fractures at The Brandt Companies
> OSHA SIR `2019054850` · 5/13/2019 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Gates
## Employer
- **Name:** The Brandt Companies
- **Location:** 11262 Indian Trail, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75229
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hauling cardboard to a dumpster on an industrial forklift. He reached to open the gate while on the lift. The gate stopped when he was trying to drive through it and his hand was smashed and a finger was broken between the forklift and the gate.

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