# Cuts, lacerations at Pete's Tire Barns, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032730` · 3/27/2023 · NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Pete's Tire Barns, Inc.
- **Location:** 186 North King Street, NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 01060
- **NAICS:** 441320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading scrap tires from a forklift into a trailer. As the employee lowered the forklift mast to drop the tires, the tires became pinched between the forklift tines and the floor of the trailer. The employee then manually pushed the tires into the trailer and once free, the forklift tines lowered  onto his left ring finger, resulting in a laceration and skin loss.

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