# Amputations at UNITED STATES COLD STORAGE
> OSHA SIR `2020087994` · 8/23/2020 · LAREDO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Posts, bollards, moorings
## Employer
- **Name:** UNITED STATES COLD STORAGE
- **Location:** 18728 Fm 1472 Mines Road, LAREDO, TEXAS, 78045
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retrieving two cargo airbags for loading a truck. While driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) down the dock, the PIT collided with a bollard by a door. The employee sustained a left thumb amputation.

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