# Fractures at Handi-Lift Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020065393` · 6/10/2020 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Handi-Lift Inc.
- **Location:** 319 State Street, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11201
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to guide a home elevator piston onto a jack stand. While the chain-fall was being lowered, his thumb was pinched between the bottom of the piston and the top of the piston jack. A bone in the left thumb was crushed.

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