# Amputations at Allied Waste Transportation, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010730` · 1/23/2015 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Trash compactors
## Employer
- **Name:** Allied Waste Transportation, Inc.
- **Location:** 2608 S. DAMEN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60619
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee received a transphalangeal amputation of his left pinky finger while offloading a compactor at the customer's location.

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