# Amputations at Tomra NY Recycling, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016010776` · 1/27/2016 · ROTTERDAM, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Tomra NY Recycling, LLC
- **Location:** 31 Opus Boulevard, ROTTERDAM, NEW YORK, 12306
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee saw a pallet fall off a forklift into a bin where it did not belong. He left his forklift and went over to the other forklift.  He rode the forks of the forklift to a 6- to 8-foot high elevation and retrieved the pallet. As he was riding the forks down, his right-hand ring fingertip became trapped and was amputated between the mast and the rack of the forklift.

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