# Amputations at Big Lots
> OSHA SIR `2023032684` · 3/25/2023 · COPIAGUE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Lots
- **Location:** 1255 Sunrise Highway, COPIAGUE, NEW YORK, 11726
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a cart with a mattress/box spring on top of it. The mattress hit a shelf, and the employee's right little fingertip was amputated.

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