# Amputations at Freightcar Alabama, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015097020` · 9/23/2015 · CHEROKEE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Freightcar Alabama, LLC
- **Location:** 1200 Haley Dr., CHEROKEE, ALABAMA, 35616
- **NAICS:** 336510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was welding the support hood of a railcar. The employee got his left ring finger pinched between the porta power and the break rod support resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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