# Amputations at Koch Foods of Cumming, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20191112222` · 11/25/2019 · CUMMING, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Posts, bollards, moorings
## Employer
- **Name:** Koch Foods of Cumming, LLC
- **Location:** 221 Meadow Dr., CUMMING, GEORGIA, 30040
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee in the battery room changed a battery on a walk-behind powered pallet jack. As the employee was exiting the battery room his thumb was caught and smashed between the pallet jack and a concrete bollard. The employee sustained a partial thumb amputation.

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