# Amputations at Superlite an Oldcastle company
> OSHA SIR `2017066069` · 6/30/2017 · CHANDLER, ARIZONA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Superlite an Oldcastle company
- **Location:** 6741 West Germann Road, CHANDLER, ARIZONA, 85226
- **NAICS:** 327331
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was tucking in a plastic wrap tail on a pallet that was on a conveyor belt when another pallet came down the conveyor and smashed his right index finger between the two pallets, amputating his finger just above the nailbed.

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