# Amputations at Costco Wholesale Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022043586` · 4/26/2022 · POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Posts, bollards, moorings
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale Corporation
- **Location:** 1800 W Sample Rd, POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA, 33064
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 5:32 a.m. on April 26, 2022, an employee was moving the uprights for a shelving system on a two-level wheeled cart. The employee's fingers were caught between the cart and a bollard, and the employee's right middle fingertip was amputated.

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