# Amputations at Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021514` · 2/15/2017 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc.
- **Location:** Maryville University - Ricoh Document Service, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63141
- **NAICS:** 423420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking to a dock door to meet a delivery person. She opened the folding hand truck before opening the overhead dock door. The two sections of the hand truck pinched her left little fingertip, severely lacerating and amputating it.

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