# Amputations at Penhall Company
> OSHA SIR `2018010077` · 1/3/2018 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pickup truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Penhall Company
- **Location:** 1280 Peach St., ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30309
- **NAICS:** 238190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a truck lift gate in the locked position when his left pinky finger was caught between the truck bed and the lift gate, amputating 1/3 of the digit.

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