# Amputations at Harris Masonry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017043465` · 4/17/2017 · BETHEL PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Slip or trip without fall, unspecified
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Harris Masonry, Inc.
- **Location:** 2000 Village Drive, BETHEL PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, 15102
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was emptying debris using a dump box on a forklift at a construction site. The employee released the latch on the dump box in order to tip it into the dumpster. At the time, the employee slipped and when he tried to catch himself his left hand got caught between the fork and the dump box pinching his middle and ring fingers resulting in a crushing injury to the ring finger and a middle fingertip amputation.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*