# Amputations at Sunbelt Chemicals Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2020021736` · 2/21/2020 · PALM COAST, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunbelt Chemicals Corp.
- **Location:** 71 Hargrove Grade, PALM COAST, FLORIDA, 32137
- **NAICS:** 424690
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching with a push stick to adjust an empty plastic bottle that was stuck about 14 feet overhead. A forklift backed out of an 18-wheeler trailer and struck the employee's right leg, breaking it. The employee was hospitalized and the employee's right foot was medically amputated.

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