# Amputations at Allied Mineral Products
> OSHA SIR `2020032796` · 3/26/2020 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Allied Mineral Products
- **Location:** 2700 Scioto Pkwy, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43221
- **NAICS:** 424690
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a forklift driver prepare 720-pound 
nose-blocks (slightly curved, cast cement blocks) for shipment when the forklift driver lowered the forks of the forklift, smashing the employee's thumb between the nose-block and 
the wood block and resulting in an amputation.

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