# Amputations at Toyotetsu Texas, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016054554` · 5/24/2016 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Toyotetsu Texas, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Lone Star Pass, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78264
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a forklift operator unload blanks onto a metal pallet when his hand entered a pinch point, amputating his middle fingertip.

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