# Amputations at Altmeyer Electric, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010983` · 1/30/2018 · PORT WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds-staging supported by structure or other means
## Employer
- **Name:** Altmeyer Electric, Inc.
- **Location:** 427 West Jackson Street, PORT WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN, 53074
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was climbing a ladder to access a hydro-mobile scaffold when the ladder shifted and pinched the employee's finger between the ladder and a scaffold component, causing a fingertip amputation.

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