# Amputations at Costco Wholesale
> OSHA SIR `2020054595` · 5/18/2020 · REGO PARK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Shopping cart, grocery carriage-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale
- **Location:** 6135 Junction Boulevard, REGO PARK, NEW YORK, 11374
- **NAICS:** 452910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bringing shopping carts into the warehouse and began to separate two carts that were together. When the carts separated, a cart tailgate fell and pinched his right ring finger, resulting in a medical fingertip amputation.

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