# Amputations at Berry Contracting, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2021109108` · 10/22/2021 · CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Berry Contracting, L.P.
- **Location:** 1147 Cantwell Ln, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, 78407
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a self-dumping forklift hopper attached to a forklift. When the hopper rolled forward, it lifted the hopper skid off the forks and caused the skid to slide back, pinching the employee's left index fingertip between the skid and the fork of the lift. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation.

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