# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at GFL Environmental
> OSHA SIR `2024043076` · 4/8/2024 · CHILLICOTHE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Garbage trucks
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** GFL Environmental
- **Location:** 19908 N Rt 29, CHILLICOTHE, ILLINOIS, 61523
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a two-yard dumpster into a truck. After dumping into the truck, the latch/lock stuck. The employee was trying to get the latch/lock to release when the trunnion bar pinched their right little fingertip, amputating it.

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