# Amputations at Atwood Distributing LP
> OSHA SIR `2021043573` · 4/30/2021 · DERBY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Atwood Distributing LP
- **Location:** 333 Red Powell Dr., DERBY, KANSAS, 67037
- **NAICS:** 444130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when the pallet jack jumped backward, smashing her thumb between the pallet jack and a cardboard bailer. The employee suffered a crushing injury to her left thumb and a possible amputation.

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