# Amputations at Gordon Food Service
> OSHA SIR `2017032195` · 3/9/2017 · PLANT CITY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Gordon Food Service
- **Location:** 1410 Gordon Food Service Dr., PLANT CITY, FLORIDA, 33563
- **NAICS:** 722310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a powered industrial vehicle (PIV). The employee was cleaning the lifting cylinder from the inside of the PIV when the cylinder pinched his right thumb causing a severe laceration to the bone that resulted in an amputation injury.

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