# Amputations at Amazon.com, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161110915` · 11/21/2016 · BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** 705 Boulder Dr, BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18031
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a high-reach forklift to move product when the employee's left thumb was caught and partially amputated between a section of racking and the forklift's support beam.

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