# Amputations at Tradewell Pallet Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017076671` · 7/18/2017 · GRETNA, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Tradewell Pallet Inc
- **Location:** 22801 Fairview Rd, GRETNA, NEBRASKA, 68028
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving a forklift to transport a dumpster full of wood scrap to a scrap pile. When he hit the trip lever to tip the dumpster forward, the bar came up and pinched his left-hand fingers between it and a forklift fork. His left middle and ring fingers were crushed and lacerated, and his ring finger had to be surgically amputated to the first knuckle.

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