# Amputations at Windstone Medical Packaging Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010592` · 1/19/2017 · BILLINGS, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** Windstone Medical Packaging Inc.
- **Location:** 1301 Montana Avenue, BILLINGS, MONTANA, 59101
- **NAICS:** 339113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to unload a truck mounted shipping container by activating the dock plate which is manually operated with a handle. While lowering the dock plate onto the back of the truck, the dock plate recoiled upon striking the right side of the truck causing the plate not to clear the truck as required to lay flat for unloading operations. The employee's left ring finger was pinched between the steel dock plate and left side steel edge of the dock plate.

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