# Amputations at Alpha Chemical Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015074768` · 7/17/2015 · STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Powered industrial carrier
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Chemical Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 46 Morton Street, STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02072
- **NAICS:** 325611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a coworker upright a 55-gallon drum full of liquid with the forks of a powered industrial truck. The drum fell, and the employee's hand got caught underneath it. He was hospitalized and had his left middle fingertip amputated.

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