# Fractures at Teri Nichols Institutional Food Merchants
> OSHA SIR `2020098756` · 9/15/2020 · HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Teri Nichols Institutional Food Merchants
- **Location:** 250 Wireless Blvd, HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK, 11749
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A warehouse worker was attempting to move a food assembly machine off a broken pallet. The machine began to fall over and it fell onto his right hand as he tried to catch it. The employee sustained three fractures and two lacerations to the right hand.

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