# Amputations at Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Deer Park Incinerator
> OSHA SIR `2021075878` · 7/18/2021 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Deer Park Incinerator
- **Location:** 2027 Independence Parkway, LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 562112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a large bulk bag that weighed approximately 1000 lbs. onto a pre-positioned pallet utilizing four eye rings attached to the bulk bag when his right thumb was caught between the forklift tine and the bulk bag ring 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*