# Amputations at U.S. Postal Service- Seattle Priority Mail Annex
> OSHA SIR `2021042913` · 4/7/2021 · KENT, WASHINGTON
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Tables, worktables
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service- Seattle Priority Mail Annex
- **Location:** 22430 Russell Road Building C, KENT, WASHINGTON, 98032
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was loading OTRs into a trailer at the loading dock. As he was pushing an OTR into a truck, it veered off the left side of the ramp and tipped over onto the driver sign-in desk. The employee was holding the OTR on the side as it rolled off the dock plate and his ring finger was crushed between the OTR and a metal table resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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