# Amputations at GREAT DANE LTD. PARTNERSHIP
> OSHA SIR `20161110707` · 11/14/2016 · KEWANEE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** GREAT DANE LTD. PARTNERSHIP
- **Location:** 2006 KENTVILLE ROAD, KEWANEE, ILLINOIS, 61443
- **NAICS:** 336212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an overhead crane to unload wooden floor boards onto the sub-assembly of a tractor-trailer frame when his left middle fingertip was caught between a load spreader bar and a sub-assembly cross member, requiring medical amputation.

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