# Amputations at Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010470` · 1/15/2018 · ARCADIA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** One Ashley Way, ARCADIA, WISCONSIN, 54612
- **NAICS:** 337122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a battery from a forklift using an overhead hoist when her left middle finger was pinched and partially amputated between the hoist hook and the lifting ear.

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