# Amputations at JLG Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017076993` · 7/26/2017 · SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Containers, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** JLG Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 560 Walnut Bottom Road, SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17257
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a cylinder off a rack when it slipped and caught the employee's right index finger between the cylinder and the rack, amputating the fingertip.

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