# Amputations at Charter HR
> OSHA SIR `2015096453` · 9/4/2015 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Delivery truck or van
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter HR
- **Location:** 1902 W. Freeway Street, GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75051
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving furniture using a box truck with a hydraulic lift gate on the back. As he and a coworker raised the lift gate, he got off the lift and grabbed the side of the rail. The coworker began to operate the lift again, which caught and amputated the employee's thumb.

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