# Amputations at Premier Fence, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019076812` · 7/8/2019 · CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Posts, bollards, moorings
## Employer
- **Name:** Premier Fence, LLC
- **Location:** Mile Marker 12, I-93 North, CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02021
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was guiding a guardrail post out of the ground. It released from the hole with force and jumped up. The employee's right hand was pinched between the post and the boom of the puller machine, causing an amputation of soft tissue on the ring finger.

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