# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at Katoen Natie Orange Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024043582` · 4/24/2024 · ORANGE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
## Employer
- **Name:** Katoen Natie Orange Inc
- **Location:** 2743 Foreman Road, ORANGE, TEXAS, 77630
- **NAICS:** 485999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been using a forklift to offload steel crates from a truck. The employee was closing the panel door of a crate that was unloaded and had been set aside as another forklift was pushing the crates when the employee's right index finger became caught between the panel doors of the crates. The finger was crushed and lacerated, requiring surgery.

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