# Amputations at Wagner Rents Commerce City
> OSHA SIR `20181010272` · 10/4/2018 · COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO
## 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
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Wagner Rents Commerce City
- **Location:** 5455 Holly St, COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO, 80022
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a 20-ton air jack to lift the front end of a self-propelled telescoping boom. The machine shifted off the jack and pinched the employee's left middle finger between the machine frame and the jack. The employee's left middle finger was partially amputated.

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