# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, unspecified at BLACK ROOFING, INC
> OSHA SIR `2017021751` · 2/23/2017 · BOULDER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BLACK ROOFING, INC
- **Location:** 6115 BEN PLACE, SUITE A, BOULDER, COLORADO, 80301
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a pair of forks for craning onto a delivery truck. The pair of forks have a sliding mechanism that helps with loading and unloading. One of the forks slid towards the employee as he was loading the truck and his right middle fingertip was caught and amputated (no bone).

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