# Amputations at Synergy Flavors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161111082` · 11/28/2016 · WAUCONDA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Machine platforms
## Employer
- **Name:** Synergy Flavors, Inc.
- **Location:** 1500 Synergy Dr., WAUCONDA, ILLINOIS, 60084
- **NAICS:** 311930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee placed a pallet of material on a platform with a forklift and then backed the forklift up to the platform gate. When the employee reached out of the lift to shut the gate, the index and middle fingers were crushed between the gate and the forklift cage. The employee's middle finger was partially amputated.

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