# Cuts, lacerations at Valley International Cold Storage, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201211961` · 12/23/2020 · HARLINGEN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Valley International Cold Storage, LLC
- **Location:** 200 North FM 509, HARLINGEN, TEXAS, 78550
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee on a pallet jack and an employee on a forklift collided at the entrance to a freezer. When the collision occurred, the pallet jack handle broke, causing the employee on the pallet jack to fall forward, where their pinky finger was caught between the forklift grate and the pallet jack handle. The employee suffered a laceration to their pinky finger.

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