# Amputations at Walmart Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `2022031929` · 3/2/2022 · MONROE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Other material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart Distribution Center
- **Location:** 655 Unisia Dr, MONROE, GEORGIA, 30655
- **NAICS:** 452910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning aisles in a distribution center. While reaching to unjam a pallet, the employee caught a finger between the pallet and a crossbeam of the pallet flow system. The fingertip was amputated.

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