# Avulsions, enucleations at Big Lots Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `2021010531` · 1/20/2021 · TREMONT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## 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:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Lots Distribution Center
- **Location:** 50 Rausch Creek Road, TREMONT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17981
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a stand-up forklift. Its cage crushed his left hand against a nearby storage rack, degloving the thumb and crushing the fingers.

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