# Amputations at Ring Power Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20171110721` · 11/7/2017 · PONTE VEDRA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Engine parts and accessories, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Ring Power Corporation
- **Location:** 368 Spanish Creek Drive, PONTE VEDRA, FLORIDA, 32081
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a front-end loader's drive sprocket. When he pushed the sprocket over the drive motor, his right middle finger was pinched between the surface of the sprocket and the drive motor, resulting in a fingertip amputation without bone loss.

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