# Amputations at Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2018010107` · 1/4/2018 · SAINT GABRIEL, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC.
- **Location:** 3905 Hwy 75, SAINT GABRIEL, LOUISIANA, 70776
- **NAICS:** 111998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing near a forklift that was carrying a cage. As the employee braced himself on a nearby angle iron, his finger was caught between the cage and the angle iron, amputating his left ring fingertip.

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