# Amputations at Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016065758` · 6/27/2016 · CAMERON, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc.
- **Location:** 9243 Gulf Beach Hwy. 82, CAMERON, LOUISIANA, 70631
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading construction materials (steel) to be inventoried when his fingertip was pinched and amputated between two pieces of steel.

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