# Amputations at Bake's Steel Erectors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088735` · 8/23/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Bake's Steel Erectors, Inc.
- **Location:** 900 N. Michigan Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60611
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a scissor lift welding a clip angle and needed to reposition the scissor lift for the next weld. While repositioning the scissor lift, his left hand was caught between the top rail and an existing pipe support, resulting in a partial pinky fingertip amputation.

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