# Amputations at QUALITY CASTINGS COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2020076534` · 7/13/2020 · ORRVILLE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** QUALITY CASTINGS COMPANY
- **Location:** 1200 N. MAIN ST., ORRVILLE, OHIO, 44667
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up work stations and maneuvering a pallet jack down an aisle-way.  Upon setting the load down, he pressed his left thumb against the racks. The handle of the pallet jack then came down and smashed his left thumb. He sustained a crushed left thumb, resulting in an open fracture and partial amputation of the left thumb tip.

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