# Fractures at Walmart
> OSHA SIR `2021043428` · 4/25/2021 · BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart
- **Location:** 5100 Kettering Rd, BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA, 34602
- **NAICS:** 452111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to dislodge a pallet that was stuck on a rail system. He cleared the pallet, but his left middle finger was caught between it and some equipment. The finger was broken and he was hospitalized.

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