# Fractures at Wheeler Material Handling Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021031913` · 3/3/2021 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(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:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Wheeler Material Handling Inc.
- **Location:** 1885 Edwards Lake Rd, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35235
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A technician was prying a reach assembly on a reach truck with a pry bar, trying to extend the reach assembly. The pry bar slipped and the reach assembly closed back on the employee's right hand breaking it.

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