# Amputations at Advantus, Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016033559` · 3/29/2016 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Entrances and exits, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Advantus, Corporation
- **Location:** 3331 W. 12th Street, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32254
- **NAICS:** 322230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were measuring the receiving dock bay door area for a replacement dock plate. The dock plate springs opened quickly and the dock plate caught the injured employee's fingers in a pinch point between the dock plate and the dock bay door surface resulting in the amputation of the right middle and index fingertips.

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