# Amputations at Scioto Services
> OSHA SIR `2016109595` · 10/11/2016 · SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Scioto Services
- **Location:** 6125 Urbana Road, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 45502
- **NAICS:** 561740
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was emptying trash into a compactor using a 1/2-ton tilt truck. He attempted to lift and dump the tilt truck up and over the compactor's gate bar when it fell. As he grabbed the bottom stabilizer bar, it caught and partially amputated his right middle finger.

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