# Amputations at Big Lots Stores Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010097` · 1/4/2017 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Lots Stores Inc.
- **Location:** 11628 Penn Hills Drive, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15235
- **NAICS:** 448140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stocking shelves and loading a baler with empty cardboard boxes. She was pulling a rope attached to the baler door to close it when her left pinky fingertip was caught and amputated in the door.

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