# Amputations at Golden Peanut, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017032182` · 3/9/2017 · DAWSON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** Golden Peanut, LLC
- **Location:** 715 MLK Jr. Drive, DAWSON, GEORGIA, 39842
- **NAICS:** 115114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was holding the dock plate handles up so that the forklift operator could maneuver the forks into the handles. The employee's left index finger was crushed in the dock plate handle resulting in partial amputation.

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