# Amputations at MPW Industrial Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20211210991` · 12/22/2021 · CHALMETTE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** MPW Industrial Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 500 West St Bernard Highway, CHALMETTE, LOUISIANA, 70043
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading and unloading cartridges with a forklift. While disengaging the hopper, his left hand slipped and was crushed by the hopper, resulting in a laceration to his left third digit and an amputation to the tip of his left second digit.

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