# Amputations at First Quality Enterprises
> OSHA SIR `2017087742` · 8/13/2017 · MC ELHATTAN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** First Quality Enterprises
- **Location:** 121 North Road, MC ELHATTAN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17748
- **NAICS:** 322291
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running a pallet destacker when it jammed. He used a pry bar to free it. When it unjammed, his right index finger was caught between the pry bar and the wood pallets, amputating his fingertip without bone loss.

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