# Amputations at FORTE MEDICAL
> OSHA SIR `2016043318` · 4/20/2016 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Medical, surgical, x-ray machinery and equipment, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FORTE MEDICAL
- **Location:** 9238 Shortridge Avenue, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63144
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to load a piece of medical equipment on the bed of a truck when the equipment shifted, crushing and amputating the employee's finger between the truck's lift gate and the equipment.

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