# Amputations at Ward Trucking LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023010967` · 1/31/2023 · BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Bands
## Employer
- **Name:** Ward Trucking LLC
- **Location:** 599 Winks Ln, BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 19020
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving bundles of metal channels off the forks of a forklift by hand to put on the dock floor. The banding broke and the employee's fingers were crushed between the floor and the bundle, resulting in a partial amputation of the right middle finger.

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