# Amputations at Tosoh SMD, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017098543` · 9/5/2017 · GROVE CITY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Tosoh SMD, Incorporated
- **Location:** 3600 Gantz Road, GROVE CITY, OHIO, 43123
- **NAICS:** 334413
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a chip hopper. His fingers were between the  hopper's box tubing, where the forklift forks pick up the hopper. When he released the dump latch to dump his chips, the weight of the hopper rolling forward caused the box tubing to slam against the forks. This created a pinch point that smashed and amputated his right index and middle fingertips.

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