# Amputations at United Parcel Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019077405` · 7/19/2019 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 4255 James E. Casey Dr., JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32219
- **NAICS:** 561431
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a hand cart full of packages to a loading bay when her left ring finger was caught between the hand cart and the building's metal support beam causing the amputation of her left ring fingertip without bone loss.

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