# Amputations at Boyer's Food Markets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181213183` · 12/26/2018 · SHENANDOAH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Boyer's Food Markets, Inc.
- **Location:** 600 West Center Street, SHENANDOAH, PENNSYLVANIA, 17976
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a delivery driver were trying to right an electric pallet jack that had fallen to the ground. The employee's right ring finger was caught between a moving part and a fixed part of the pallet jack, causing an amputation at the first knuckle.

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