# Amputations at United Parcel Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020010374` · 1/14/2020 · LYNNFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 110 Kimball Lane, LYNNFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 01940
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sorting boxes on the pre-sort line and attempted to make an adjustment to a box on the box line. The line was in motion and caught the employee's thumb between the box and a guardrail upright at the end of the platform. The employee sustained an amputation of the distal phalanx on the left thumb.

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