# Amputations at Morgan Truck Body LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161111015` · 11/23/2016 · EPHRATA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Gates
## Employer
- **Name:** Morgan Truck Body LLC
- **Location:** 485 Wenger Drive, EPHRATA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17522
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a coworker were closing the perimeter gate at the end of the day when he stopped to remove some cardboard that was blocking the gate. His coworker kept pushing the gate and the employee's second finger became stuck in the gate rollers, amputating his fingertip.

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