# Amputations at East Penn Manufacturing
> OSHA SIR `2016077033` · 7/31/2016 · LYON STATION, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** East Penn Manufacturing
- **Location:** Deka Road, LYON STATION, PENNSYLVANIA, 19536
- **NAICS:** 335911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was backing up the stacker truck with his left hand on the control lever when he pinched his left pinky finger between a rack and the stacker truck control lever resulting in the amputation of two-thirds of the pinky finger.

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