# Amputations at Proquip Equipment Rentals & Sales, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019099520` · 9/12/2019 · CHICHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Proquip Equipment Rentals & Sales, Inc.
- **Location:** 100 Dover Road, CHICHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03258
- **NAICS:** 532412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were performing maintenance on a boom lift. While they were disassembling the boom, a piece of the boom fell down and pinned an employee's hand between the boom and a machine, resulting in the amputation of the employee's finger.

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