# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at The Knapheide Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2024010443` · 1/16/2024 · QUINCY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Bumpers
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** The Knapheide Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 1848 Westphalia Strasse, QUINCY, ILLINOIS, 62301
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 16, 2024, at 11:18 p.m., an employee was positioning a truck bumper that was on the floor, to be raised with a chain hoist, when the bumper shifted and pinched the employee's left middle fingertip against the floor, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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