# Amputations at Guardian Environmental Services Co.
> OSHA SIR `2017010716` · 1/25/2017 · NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Guardian Environmental Services Co.
- **Location:** 9626 Niagara Falls Boulevard, NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, 14304
- **NAICS:** 541711
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting in moving a portable truck scale when the load shifted, fell approximately 10 feet, and caught the employee's left-hand fingers between the cribbing and the asphalt resulting in three fingertip amputations and fractures.

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