# Amputations at XPO Logistics Supply Chain, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019088470` · 8/16/2019 · LITHIA SPRINGS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
- **Secondary source:** Overhead hoists-electric powered
## Employer
- **Name:** XPO Logistics Supply Chain, Inc.
- **Location:** 747 Douglas Hill Road, LITHIA SPRINGS, GEORGIA, 30122
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 9:40 a.m. on August 16, 2019, a temporary employee was loading a spool of shrink-wrap on a shrink-wrap machine using an electric powered hoist. The hoist dropped the load onto the employee's finger while adjusting a roller tab that had to be in the vertical position for the roll to set in place. The employee suffered the amputation of the left middle fingertip.

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