# Fractures and surface, flesh wounds at UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024021354` · 2/13/2024 · DEER PARK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Hydraulic and pressurized cylinders
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.
- **Location:** 1050 Grand Boulevard, DEER PARK, NEW YORK, 11729
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a hydraulic cylinder on a boom lift. The cylinder slid down and caught the employee's right thumb resulting in a laceration and fracture to the right thumb.

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