# Amputations at U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
> OSHA SIR `2015031049` · 3/7/2015 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
- **Location:** 1700 CLEVELAND, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64121
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a trailer with a covered wagon (all-purpose container) when she looked down and saw that she was bleeding. She was wearing gloves. Her fingertip was amputated.

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