# Amputations at Power Equipment Company
> OSHA SIR `2019011125` · 1/31/2019 · GREELEY, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Power Equipment Company
- **Location:** 2836 1st Ave., GREELEY, COLORADO, 80631
- **NAICS:** 333298
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting a gooseneck trailer to a hitch when the employee's finger was caught and smashed between the trailer connector and hitch body, resulting in a surgical finger amputation.

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