# Amputations at UNITED PARCEL SERVICE
> OSHA SIR `2021053903` · 5/12/2021 · CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Dogs, canines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** UNITED PARCEL SERVICE
- **Location:** 1075 County Road 1383, CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, 73018
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a package into a plastic bag to put over the fence for delivery when a dog came out from behind the garbage carts and bit her right thumb. Her right thumb was amputated to the first knuckle.

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