# Amputations at FedEx Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20181213224` · 12/27/2018 · NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FedEx Corporation
- **Location:** 347 Metroplex Rd., NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, 07114
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a unit load device's lock into the upright/locked 
position after the container had been slid into place on a 777 airplane. The control lever to move the container was struck and the container moved, catching the employee's left ring finger in the lock. The fingertip was partially severed.

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