# Amputations at Hyster-Yale
> OSHA SIR `2017065155` · 6/6/2017 · SULLIGENT, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hyster-Yale
- **Location:** 77 11 Hwy 278, SULLIGENT, ALABAMA, 35586
- **NAICS:** 333924
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to adjust transfer vice clamps while a hydraulic cylinder was in the process of transferring when his right pinky finger was caught between the actuator blocks and amputated to the first joint. The cylinder was unguarded at the time.

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