# Amputations at Suburban Landscape Management
> OSHA SIR `20161211883` · 12/22/2016 · WICHITA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Suburban Landscape Management
- **Location:** 1100 E. MacArthur, WICHITA, KANSAS, 67216
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On December 22, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. an employee was manually moving a snow plow blade on a parked forklift and caught his finger under the blade and between a fork on the forklift resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*