# Amputations at GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company
> OSHA SIR `2022032559` · 3/22/2022 · GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** GE Transportation, a Wabtec Company
- **Location:** 660 Barkeyville Road, GROVE CITY, PENNSYLVANIA, 16127
- **NAICS:** 336510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a diffuser in a blower on a lift table. The lift table's shaft got stuck; the employee was checking the air system when the table released and moved, crushing the employee's right ring finger against the blower. The employee underwent a medical amputation to the finger.

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