# Amputations involving bone loss at Home Express Deliver Service, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024021137` · 2/6/2024 · HORACE, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Straight trucks, box trucks
- **Secondary source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
## Employer
- **Name:** Home Express Deliver Service, LLC
- **Location:** 6417 83rd Avenue, HORACE, NORTH DAKOTA, 58047
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's little finger was caught in the folding mechanism of a lift gate on a delivery truck. The employee sustained amputation of the fifth distal phalange.

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