# Amputations at Refuse Materials, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023031893` · 3/1/2023 · KITTANNING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Shelves, shelving
## Employer
- **Name:** Refuse Materials, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Hilltop Plaza, KITTANNING, PENNSYLVANIA, 16201
- **NAICS:** 238330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to set up skates to move a gondola. The bar slipped off the rack and the gondola leg fell and crushed the employee's right index finger, resulting in amputation at the first knuckle.

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