# Fractures at Lowe's Home Improvement
> OSHA SIR `20201010284` · 10/29/2020 · WILMINGTON, OHIO
## 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:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Girders, beams, structural steel
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Improvement
- **Location:** 1175 Rombach Avenue, WILMINGTON, OHIO, 45177
- **NAICS:** 444190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an order picker. As the order picker was raised the employee's left hand fingers were caught between the order picker cage and a ceiling I-beam resulting in two broken fingers.

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