# Amputations at Lowes Home Center LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021010611` · 1/22/2021 · MURPHY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowes Home Center LLC
- **Location:** 111 East Farm to Market Road 544, MURPHY, TEXAS, 75094
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a scissor lift when his finger got caught on the latch of the scissor lift. The employee sustained an amputation to the left ring fingertip.

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