# Cuts, lacerations at Saddle Creek Corporation dba Saddle Creek Logistics Services
> OSHA SIR `2023043154` · 4/10/2023 · EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Saddle Creek Corporation dba Saddle Creek Logistics Services
- **Location:** 12 Gateway Commerce Center Dr East, EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62025
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 10, 2023, at 9:30 a.m., an employee was carrying rope strapping in their left hand while operating a forklift. While the lift was moving, the strapping fell out of the compartment to the floor. It then wound around the forklift's wheel and pulled the employee's left hand and fingers from the steering wheel. The employee sustained a laceration to his middle finger that required hospitalization.

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