# Amputations at AAON, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023054624` · 5/24/2023 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** AAON, Inc.
- **Location:** 2425 South Yukon Ave., TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74107
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was emptying a small hopper full of cardboard into a compactor. He was undoing a latch that allows the hopper to move forward when his left little finger became caught between the hopper and the mast of the forklift. His left little finger was partially amputated.

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