# Amputations at Aerotek Staffing Agency
> OSHA SIR `2017010233` · 1/9/2017 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## 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
## Employer
- **Name:** Aerotek Staffing Agency
- **Location:** Thiel Tool & Engineering Company, Inc., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63141
- **NAICS:** 561311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping items from a lugger into a metal dumpster. When the employee lifted the lugger and released the handle, the handle hit and amputated his left third fingertip.

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