# Crushing injuries at Louisiana Pepper Exchange
> OSHA SIR `2020065398` · 6/10/2020 · NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## 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:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Louisiana Pepper Exchange
- **Location:** 1755 Tchoupitoulas St, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, 70130
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a forklift to move pallets at a warehouse. As he was backing up the forklift, his hand went outside the forklift and was crushed between the forklift and an adjacent trailer. He was hospitalized.

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