# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at Lowe's Home Improvement
> OSHA SIR `2025043300` · 4/9/2025 · AKRON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple arm locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object pushed or pulled by person
- **Source:** Utility carts, hand trucks, dollies
- **Secondary source:** Co-worker, supervisor  current
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Improvement
- **Location:** 940 Interstate Parkway, AKRON, OHIO, 44312
- **NAICS:** 452910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A cashier was walking to the register in the lumber department when another employee was pushing a cart with lumber and the cart struck the cashier. The cashier fell and sustained a broken left arm and a dislocated left elbow.

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