# Amputations at Worldwide Flight Services
> OSHA SIR `2021075649` · 7/9/2021 · GRAPEVINE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Worldwide Flight Services
- **Location:** 1640 West 23rd Street, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, 76051
- **NAICS:** 488190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee raised a pallet with his forklift in order to record information written on the pallet. While he was recording the information, the pallet slipped off the forklift's tines and crushed his finger. The finger was amputated.

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