# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Georgia Pacific Wood Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024076877` · 7/29/2024 · TAYLORSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision  Struck by shifting, dislodged load in transport
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Bundles, bales
## Employer
- **Name:** Georgia Pacific Wood Products, LLC
- **Location:** 105 E SCR 25 Highway 28 W, TAYLORSVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, 39168
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a forklift in reverse carrying five bundles of plywood. Upon applying the brakes, the top load shifted backward onto the top of the forklift cage and pinched the employee's the left middle fingertip against the forklift cage, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

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