# Amputations at Kroger
> OSHA SIR `2016010785` · 1/27/2016 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Kroger
- **Location:** 2175 Parklake Dr., ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30345
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading pallets into a trailer using a pallet jack . Some of the pallets started to fall. His hand got caught in the pallet jack's handle when he tried to catch the falling pallets and his left index finger was amputated.

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