# Amputations at The Children's Place Services Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022076008` · 7/11/2022 · FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Shelves, shelving
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** The Children's Place Services Company, LLC
- **Location:** 1377 Airport Road West, FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA, 35968
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a bottom shelf into pallet racking. The front right edge of the shelf hung up on the racking upright. The employee used a makeshift pry bar to pry it loose. When the shelf fell, pinching his left middle finger against the upright crossbar and amputating the fingertip.

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