# Amputations at Progress Rail Services Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015031271` · 3/18/2015 · GALESBURG, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Progress Rail Services Corporation
- **Location:** 618 US Highway 150 East, GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, 61401
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The last digit on an employee's pinky finger was amputated when caught between a metal plate attached to a pump and a trailer bed while unloading scrap metal into the Peddlers Yard. Suitable safeguarding was not in place at the time of the incident.

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