# Amputations at Restaurant Equipment Service Group LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020065559` · 6/15/2020 · NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving
## Employer
- **Name:** Restaurant Equipment Service Group LLC
- **Location:** 95 Hampton Avenue, NEEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, 02494
- **NAICS:** 423850
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee arrived at the shop to pick up parts. He used a lift jack to move crates, uncrated a crate, took the parts out and set them on the side. There was a heavy metal pole that is used for the lift jacks that fell off the shelf and hit his hand. He sustained the amputation of the left middle fingertip.

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