# Amputations at HOLLISTER-WHITNEY ELEVATOR CORP.
> OSHA SIR `2019021967` · 2/21/2019 · QUINCY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** HOLLISTER-WHITNEY ELEVATOR CORP.
- **Location:** #1 Hollister-Whitney Parkway, QUINCY, ILLINOIS, 62305
- **NAICS:** 333921
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 11:00 a.m. on February 21, 2019, an employee was retrieving a steel channel beam from a stack. The employee pried two steel channel beams apart with a 12-inch pry bar to attach a lifting device. One beam slid off the other, and the employee's right ring fingertip was pinched between the beams and was amputated.

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