# Amputations at Carl R. Smith, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015053055` · 5/20/2015 · TYRONE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Carl R. Smith, Inc.
- **Location:** 4408 East Pleasant Valley Road, TYRONE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16686
- **NAICS:** 484110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee at a site location was helping to empty a tip hopper of glass into a truck bed. The employee's right thumb got caught between the hopper and the truck bed. The employee suffered an amputation to the right thumb tip.

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