# Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures at FedEx Ground
> OSHA SIR `2025066243` · 6/28/2025 · COVINGTON, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Chutes
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FedEx Ground
- **Location:** 450 Northpoint Ct, COVINGTON, LOUISIANA, 70433
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was prepping a trailer load area by lowering the chute that drops packages into the trailer. As she pulled the chute down, her finger was crushed between the handle of the chute and a metal plate that was under the chute. The chute caused a severe laceration to her finger that required surgery and hospitalization.

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