# Amputations at Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021097955` · 9/15/2021 · STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Delivery truck or van
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowe's Home Centers, LLC
- **Location:** 160 Curtin Road, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16802
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was folding up a lift gate after making a delivery. His thumb was injured between the truck bed and the lift bed. The thumb was partially amputated.

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