# Fractures at Werner Enterprises, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023076183` · 7/12/2023 · NORTHPORT, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Cages, cage racks
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Werner Enterprises, Inc.
- **Location:** 4419 Highway 43 N, NORTHPORT, ALABAMA, 35473
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the rear of delivery truck unloading rolling metal cages containing merchandise. As the employee lowered a container to the ground with a lift gate, it began tipping over. The employee extended his right arm to prevent the load from falling and his right little finger was caught between the rolling cage and the trailer door frame. He sustained an open fracture to the right little finger.

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