# Amputations at AMGEN Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043526` · 4/12/2018 · WEST GREENWICH, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AMGEN Inc.
- **Location:** 40 TECHNOLOGY WAY, WEST GREENWICH, RHODE ISLAND, 02817
- **NAICS:** 325412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing routine maintenance on a process vessel. While the employee was lowering the vessel head plate into position over the vessel, a member of the lifting mechanism unexpectedly shifted, causing the employee's right ring finger to become pinched between the mechanism and the head plate. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

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