# Fractures at Dawn Foods
> OSHA SIR `2023087341` · 8/11/2023 · AVALON, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Dawn Foods
- **Location:** Kohler's Bakery, AVALON, NEW JERSEY, 08202
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching down to pick up a cart handle when the tip of his right index finger was caught between a trailer and its liftgate, resulting in a fractured fingertip.

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