# Amputations at Forward Air, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020087997` · 8/23/2020 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Forward Air, Inc.
- **Location:** 4555 Geneva St, DENVER, COLORADO, 80238
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to get a dock plate up to put in the back of a trailer. The plate was stuck. Another employee picked it back up; the first employee slipped and fell, and his hand was pinched by the lip of the dock plate. He suffered a partial amputation to the left thumb (with no bone loss).

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