# Amputations involving bone loss at Cintas Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024065376` · 6/18/2024 · APOLLO BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Trucks  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, tubes  metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Cintas Corporation
- **Location:** 6938 N US Hwy 41, APOLLO BEACH, FLORIDA, 33572
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee stepped up on the back of the work vehicle which was parked at a customer parking lot and began manually unloading a 4  galvanized pipe from the ladder rack on top of the vehicle. While removing the pipe, the employee lost his balance and fell backward off the back of the vehicle. The pipe that the employee was unloading was pulled down as he fell. Upon landing on the concrete parking lot, the pipe pinned the employee s right hand against the concrete. The employee sustained a fracture and laceration to their middle finger that resulted in medical amputation of the finger.

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