# Amputations at Target Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015041720` · 4/3/2015 · MOORE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Target Corporation
- **Location:** 720 S.W. 19th Street, MOORE, OKLAHOMA, 73160
- **NAICS:** 452111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 4/3/2015 at 9:45 a.m., an employee was placing cardboard in the cardboard bailer. The employee closed the gate on his hand, amputating his left middle finger at the first knuckle.  He was hospitalized.

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