# Amputations at Acme Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021097856` · 9/13/2021 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Acme Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 4660 Monaco St., DENVER, COLORADO, 80216
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were trying to right an overturned pallet of 10-foot angle iron using a forklift. One employee's left middle finger was caught between the pallet of angle iron and another pallet below. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

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