# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at United Parcel Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032128` · 3/5/2025 · HODGKINS, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Chutes
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 UPS Way, HODGKINS, ILLINOIS, 60525
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 5, 2025, a package handler was moving packages off a slide to a belt and was lifting a heavy, irregularly-shaped box when it shifted. The box came down on their right hand and pinched a finger against the slide. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the tip of the finger.

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