# Amputations at FEDEX GROUND
> OSHA SIR `2022087713` · 8/30/2022 · SAINT PETERS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by handheld object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Packages, parcels
## Employer
- **Name:** FEDEX GROUND
- **Location:** 9000 Premier Parkway, SAINT PETERS, MISSOURI, 63376
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling packages from a van line and placing them on staging slides located just off the platform of the van line. While sliding a package from the edge of the belt through the unload device groove, the package cut their left little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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