# Amputations at Turn2 Specialty Companies LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020109415` · 10/3/2020 · POINT COMFORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Turn2 Specialty Companies LLC
- **Location:** Formosa Plastics Corp, POINT COMFORT, TEXAS, 77978
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were moving a pallet of tower trays and beams using a hydraulic pallet jack when a board from the pallet became caught under one of the wheels of the pallet jack. An employee was removing the board when the hydraulics were released, lowering the pallet onto the employee's hand and resulting in partial amputation of the left index fingertip.

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