# Amputations at WASTE MANAGEMENT OF NEW JERSEY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2018077486` · 7/24/2018 · MATAWAN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
## Employer
- **Name:** WASTE MANAGEMENT OF NEW JERSEY, INC.
- **Location:** 181 ROUTE 34, MATAWAN, NEW JERSEY, 07747
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was applying grease by hand to holes that a 
hoist pin travels through when the pin engaged and pinched his left index fingertip, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The vehicle was running at the time.

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