# Fractures at Melhorn Sales Service and Trucking
> OSHA SIR `2022054558` · 5/26/2022 · JOHNSTOWN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Passenger van
## Employer
- **Name:** Melhorn Sales Service and Trucking
- **Location:** 11995 Croton Rd, JOHNSTOWN, OHIO, 43031
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hooking up a utility trailer to a passenger van when their left hand was pinched between the trailer hitch and trailer ball on the van, resulting in a hand fracture at the left little finger.

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