# Amputations at Reading Truck Body LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016065740` · 6/27/2016 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Reading Truck Body LLC
- **Location:** 201 Hancock Blvd, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19611
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a bundle of steel straps 2 inches wide by 21 feet long off of a delivery truck. The employee was holding onto them when the bundle shifted and the employee's right index fingertip was amputated.

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