# Amputations at Springs Fabrication, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015030118` · 3/12/2015 · LOVELAND, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Metal plates, metal panels
## Employer
- **Name:** Springs Fabrication, Inc.
- **Location:** 3951 MacArthur Ave., LOVELAND, COLORADO, 80538
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee amputated his left thumb at the distal joint while using an overhead gantry crane. His thumb got caught in a pinch point between a metal plate weighing approximately 300 pounds and the lifting frame when a magnet holding the plate failed.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*