# Amputations at The Giant Company
> OSHA SIR `2023032467` · 3/18/2023 · CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** The Giant Company
- **Location:** 1149 Harrisburg Pike, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17013
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading recyclables and empty pallets when his right ring finger was caught between the pallet jack's grab bar and a wooden pallet, resulting in amputation of flesh underneath the nail to the first knuckle.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*