# Amputations at Moran Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015085738` · 8/13/2015 · DAYTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Moran Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 2152 Gettysburg Avenue, DAYTON, OHIO, 45406
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were moving a pallet with a manual pallet jack when a piece of the wooden pallet broke. While one of the employee's reached down to grab the piece of wood, the other employee lowered the pallet catching the injured employee's left middle finger. The left middle fingertip was amputated and surgically reattached.

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