# Amputations at Walmart Store #4554
> OSHA SIR `2022054086` · 5/10/2022 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
- **Secondary source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Walmart Store #4554
- **Location:** 2525 West Anderson Lane, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78757
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to move stock when their left thumb became caught between the pallet jack and a steel structure. The thumb was amputated.

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