# Amputations at Emerson Tool Company
> OSHA SIR `2017065803` · 6/24/2017 · PHARR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), n.e.c.
- **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:** Emerson Tool Company
- **Location:** 800 E Capote Central Avenue, PHARR, TEXAS, 78577
- **NAICS:** 333319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a reach truck to store material on a rack. The employee was standing on the forklift and the employee's left foot was caught between the frame of the forklift and the rack resulting in a crushing injury. The left foot was surgically amputated.

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