# Amputations at Benchmark Construction Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016054516` · 5/23/2016 · LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Structural metal materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Benchmark Construction Company Inc.
- **Location:** 549 North Lime Street, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17602
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding on to the basket of the aerial lift. The employee's left middle finger was crushed between the lift rail and a piece of steel resulting in the amputation of the fingertip below the first knuckle.

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