# Crushing injuries at ICL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS INC
> OSHA SIR `20231110141` · 11/2/2023 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Crushing injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** ICL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS INC
- **Location:** 8201 Idaho Ave., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63111
- **NAICS:** 325320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing a loaded a trailer and activated the dock leveler control panel to retract the lip of the leveler. The lip did not fully retract and the employee attempted to pull the lip into the retracted position manually. The lip then extended, catching the employee's right middle finger and crushing it.

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