# Amputations at FEDEX GROUND
> OSHA SIR `2017087528` · 8/7/2017 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FEDEX GROUND
- **Location:** 1525 WOODSON ROAD, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63114
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a footstool to remove a grating guard from underneath an overhead conveyor. He lost his balance while removing a cotter pin from the grating, and his right index fingertip was caught and amputated between the pin and grating.

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