# Amputations at UPS
> OSHA SIR `20211210588` · 12/9/2021 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Delivery truck or van
## Employer
- **Name:** UPS
- **Location:** 1920 N NIAS AVE, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65803
- **NAICS:** 561499
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading a package car using an unloader belt and was vertically adjusting the unloading device in the cargo area of the package car when a raised package caught his left thumb against a shelf bracing, resulting in a partial amputation.

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