# Amputations at JLG Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20180910007` · 9/27/2018 · SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** JLG Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 560 Walnut Bottom Road, SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17257
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling a boom lift, inserting and sliding a section of boom into another boom section. The underside of her left middle finger was pinched the two sections, resulting in a partial amputation to the fingertip.

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