# Amputations at Publix Super Markets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022053853` · 5/4/2022 · LAKELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix Super Markets, Inc.
- **Location:** 3045 New Tampa Hwy, LAKELAND, FLORIDA, 33811
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was turning a reach truck into an aisle. His left foot was crushed between the reach truck and a pole it was about to strike. He suffered an amputation to the foot.

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