# Amputations at Pengate Handling Systems of New York, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181010619` · 10/15/2018 · CONKLIN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Pengate Handling Systems of New York, Inc.
- **Location:** 101 Broome  Corporation Parkway, CONKLIN, NEW YORK, 13748
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a chain on a forklift when his finger was caught between the mast guard and the vise grip hand tool, resulting in a left ring fingertip amputation.

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