# Amputations at Abbott Laboratories
> OSHA SIR `2019044083` · 4/22/2019 · ABBOTT PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Abbott Laboratories
- **Location:** 100 Abbott Park Road, ABBOTT PARK, ILLINOIS, 60064
- **NAICS:** 621999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the motor of a stand up order picker and ran the drive to allow the brushes to break in. The employee was walking around the order picker, tripped and fell, catching his hand in the rotating metal cooling fan and sustaining a fingertip amputation.

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