# Amputations at BMC East, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017053923` · 5/1/2017 · PARADISE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** BMC East, LLC
- **Location:** 3356 Lincoln Highway, PARADISE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17562
- **NAICS:** 423390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a vertical stacker to raise trusses. When the employee pushed the stacker bar over, it started to fall. As the employee tried to catch it, the stacker pinched and amputated the employee's fingertip.

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