# Amputations at United Parcel Service
> OSHA SIR `2020021485` · 2/14/2020 · DFW AIRPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service
- **Location:** UPS DFW Air Facility, DFW AIRPORT, TEXAS, 75261
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting two dollies. He had pulled the pin from the eyelet of one dolly and was pulling the other dolly to make a connection when his right middle finger was caught between the tongue of one dolly and the eyelet of the other dolly. The finger was lacerated between the nail and the first knuckle, and the fingertip was medically amputated.

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