# Amputations at Sunbelt Rentals, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098824` · 9/14/2017 · PALM COAST, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunbelt Rentals, Inc.
- **Location:** Georgia Aquarium, PALM COAST, FLORIDA, 32164
- **NAICS:** 811118
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee placed a generator on a tractor trailer flatbed. He raised the flatbed while his left hand was on the trailer's frame rail. His left thumb was then caught between the frame rail and the flatbed, amputating his thumb tip without bone loss.

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