# Cuts, lacerations at Walmart, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023109489` · 10/13/2023 · PHENIX CITY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart, Inc.
- **Location:** 3700 US-280, PHENIX CITY, ALABAMA, 36867
- **NAICS:** 452210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to unload a truck when his right ankle got caught in the dock plate. The employee was hospitalized with a deep laceration to the ankle.

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