# Amputations at Big Lots Stores
> OSHA SIR `2022097822` · 9/1/2022 · SEDALIA, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Lots Stores
- **Location:** 3125 W Broadway, SEDALIA, MISSOURI, 65301
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting with unloading boxes from a truck. The employee put a box on the conveyor when she lost her balance and her little finger got caught in the conveyor as she was trying to balance herself, resulting in an amputation between the second and third joint.

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