# Amputations at UPS
> OSHA SIR `2015118347` · 11/5/2015 · PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Packages, parcels
## Employer
- **Name:** UPS
- **Location:** 2301 Highland Road, PALMERTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18071
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transferring an erect package on an erect package cart.  The employee's thumb was underneath the package and when he pulled it out from under the package he sustained an amputation injury.

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