# Amputations involving bone loss at Hanes Companies Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043505` · 4/22/2024 · PONTOTOC, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hanes Companies Inc.
- **Location:** 339 Stafford Blvd, PONTOTOC, MISSISSIPPI, 38863
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing the dock leveler from the end of their trailer by pulling the lifting pin at the end of the plate, when his right index finger became pinched in the fold of the plate. He sustained an amputation of the finger to the first knuckle.

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