# Amputations at Stellar Trucking Company Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2023021399` · 2/13/2023 · HICKSVILLE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle passenger doors
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Stellar Trucking Company Incorporated
- **Location:** 300 Duffy Avenue, HICKSVILLE, NEW YORK, 11801
- **NAICS:** 423110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing the back door of his truck when several of the top panels of the door came off the hinges. He went to catch the panels and his left little finger was caught between the falling panel and the side wall of the truck 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*