# Amputations at Sapa Extrusions, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010695` · 1/23/2017 · CRESSONA, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Sapa Extrusions, Inc.
- **Location:** 53 Pottsville Street, CRESSONA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17929
- **NAICS:** 331312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee on a scissor lift that had a manually extendible boom was replacing a furnace door. As he was maneuvering the door, he placed his left hand on the lift's top rail assembly, which consisted of a square tubing channel and a U-shaped channel. When he pushed the door against the lift, his left pinky was caught and amputated (above the knuckle) between the two channels.

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