# Amputations at Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016087499` · 8/11/2016 · HATFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
- **Secondary source:** Elevators, hoists, aerial lifts, personnel platforms-except truck-mounted, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Packers Sanitation Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 2700 CLEMENS ROAD, HATFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA, 19440
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a vat on a vat lift. When he attempted to correct the alignment of the vat, his finger was pinched between the vat and the vat lift, amputating his fingertip.

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