# Amputations at Environmental Works Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022109154` · 10/19/2022 · KANSAS CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 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:** Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
- **Secondary source:** Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Environmental Works Inc
- **Location:** 7000 Douglas Ave., KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, 66106
- **NAICS:** 541620
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving product inside a gondola railcar with a walk-behind skid loader. The employee's left thumb was crushed between the loader and the railcar wall; the employee was hospitalized, and the thumb was medically amputated.

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