# Amputations at Bowhead Logistics Solutions, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016065325` · 6/15/2016 · FORT POLK, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Bowhead Logistics Solutions, LLC
- **Location:** Fort Polk, FORT POLK, LOUISIANA, 71459
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 06/15/2016, an employee was helping to relocate the forks on a powered industrial truck. The employee's left-hand ring finger was caught between the forks, resulting in an open fracture and partial amputation of the fingertip below the fingernail.

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