# Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries at Deep South Equipment
> OSHA SIR `2025066194` · 6/27/2025 · LAWTON, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
- **Source:** Industrial carrier  powered
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle or mobile equipment failure
## Employer
- **Name:** Deep South Equipment
- **Location:** 1 Goodyear Blvd, LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, 73505
- **NAICS:** 532490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing by as a forklift was bringing a malfunctioning tow tractor into the truck shop for diagnosis and repair. When it was lowered to the ground, the tow tractor departed the forklift under its own power and struck the employee, pinning him against a guardrail. The employee sustained crushing injuries to vertebrae and his pelvic region.

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