# Amputations at Veeco Services
> OSHA SIR `2017109496` · 10/3/2017 · NORTH BERGEN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Veeco Services
- **Location:** 6801 West Side Ave., NORTH BERGEN, NEW JERSEY, 07047
- **NAICS:** 484121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding the lip of a dock plate open just before it was lowered into position on a shipping container when the employee's left hand became trapped between the lip of the dock plate and the rear floor of the shipping container. His middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

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