# Amputations at Equipment Depot
> OSHA SIR `2021098416` · 9/29/2021 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, unspecified
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Equipment Depot
- **Location:** 15051 FAA Boulevard, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76155
- **NAICS:** 333924
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting a co-worker in flipping over a pallet jack when his left little finger was caught in the wheel of the pallet jack, resulting in a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation , as well as a laceration on his left ring finger.

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