# Amputations at SMX Cargo, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021032308` · 3/17/2021 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** SMX Cargo, LLC
- **Location:** 27000 E. 75th Avenue, DENVER, COLORADO, 80249
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving trash with a forklift. As the employee emptied the forklift's trash hopper, his left ring finger was caught in a pinch point and the fingertip was amputated.

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