# Amputations at Archer Western
> OSHA SIR `2019010812` · 1/23/2019 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck bump, hole, rough terrain on driving surface, nonroadway
- **Source:** Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Archer Western
- **Location:** 11650 Houle Road, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32218
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a walk-behind skid steer. He was traveling under an elevated 18" pipe when the front of the machine dropped into a hole, raising the back of the machine and pinching his left hand between the machine and the pipe. He suffered an amputation of his left middle fingertip (approximately 1/2 inch).

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