# Amputations at Target Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017109438` · 10/1/2017 · VESTAL, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cans
## Employer
- **Name:** Target Corporation
- **Location:** 3112 Vestal Parkway East, VESTAL, NEW YORK, 13850
- **NAICS:** 452990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping garbage out of a tipster (a plastic garbage can on wheels) that had a crack. As the employee was putting the tipster back down, the employee's right index fingertip was caught and amputated in the crack.

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