# Amputations at Sonoco Products Company
> OSHA SIR `2018077541` · 7/25/2018 · OPP, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Sonoco Products Company
- **Location:** 309 Hwy 52 East, OPP, ALABAMA, 36467
- **NAICS:** 322130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a push cart when her right pinky fingertip (5th digit) was pinched and smashed between the cart she was using and another cart in the area. Her fingertip had to be medically amputated.

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