# Amputations at SunState Equipment
> OSHA SIR `2015118476` · 11/10/2015 · COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** SunState Equipment
- **Location:** 1211 E. Cheyenne Rd., COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, 80906
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading equipment from a tilt trailer. A D-ring from one of the hold-down straps was caught between the trailer and the tilt bed. The employee tried to knock out the D-ring with a sledge hammer. When the D-ring was knocked out, the trailer bed came down and amputated the employee's right index fingertip.

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