# Amputations at Safway Atlantic, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021010806` · 1/29/2021 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Safway Atlantic, LLC
- **Location:** 425 Park Ave, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10022
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were loading material that had been dismantled from a hoist onto a truck at the loading dock using a pallet jack. While the material was being transported by the pallet jack, the load shifted and one of the employee's left middle fingertip was caught between two hoist poles and amputated.

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