# Fractures at FEDEX
> OSHA SIR `2019099642` · 9/16/2019 · SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** FEDEX
- **Location:** 3951 NEW TOWN BLVD., SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI, 63301
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting the height of a hydraulic press table to insert the positioning pin when the hydraulic press came down and crushed the employee's hand between the pin and press table. The employee suffered a fractured left hand requiring surgery and hospitalization.

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