# Crushing injuries at American Warehouses
> OSHA SIR `2023010809` · 1/25/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## 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:** Entrances and exits, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** American Warehouses
- **Location:** 1918 Collingsworth Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77009
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a forklift when this hand was crushed between the forklift and the steel door. He was hospitalized.

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