# Amputations at Costco Wholesale
> OSHA SIR `2021097624` · 9/4/2021 · PLANO, 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:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale
- **Location:** 3800 North Central Expressway, PLANO, TEXAS, 75074
- **NAICS:** 452311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading cardboard boxes onto a bailer. When the employee closed the bailer's gate, the bailer caught the tip of the employee's finger. The fingertip was amputated.

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