# Amputations at Amerit Fleet Solutions Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016109505` · 10/8/2016 · VIDALIA, GEORGIA
## 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:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Amerit Fleet Solutions Inc.
- **Location:** 202 East Second Street, VIDALIA, GEORGIA, 30475
- **NAICS:** 811111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a folding trailer tongue with a coworker when they lost control of the towing arm. The arm caught the employee's hand, severing the right thumb and partially severing the right pinky finger.

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