# Amputations at STRUCTURAL STEEL SERVICES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016099154` · 9/28/2016 · MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** STRUCTURAL STEEL SERVICES, INC.
- **Location:** 6215 ST. LOUIS STREET, MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, 39301
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a crane to lift and move steel tubing onto a roller bed. The chain sling slipped from the crane hook as the tubing was being lowered and the employee's left thumb was pinched between the tubing and a steel beam that was in the roller bed. The employee's thumb was amputated just below the fingernail.

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