# Amputations at Waste Management
> OSHA SIR `2020054915` · 5/27/2020 · NEW SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management
- **Location:** 3510 Garfield Road, NEW SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 44443
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing the door to a storage box when his left thumb was caught between the storage box and the closing door. He sustained a partial amputation of the tip of the left thumb.

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