# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Safety-Kleen Systems
> OSHA SIR `2024010209` · 1/9/2024 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Safety-Kleen Systems
- **Location:** 734 North West Bypass, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65802
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a powered lift gate on a truck. While the employee was attempting to untangle the chain, the chain caught their left thumb, which resulted in an amputation to the thumb tip.

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