# Amputations at ANDRITZ SEPARATION, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20161110332` · 11/2/2016 · BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ANDRITZ SEPARATION, INC.
- **Location:** Upper Blue Sanitation District, BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO, 80424
- **NAICS:** 333999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a piece of machinery with a crane when the load slipped and his left index finger was pinched between the beam on the crane and the load. He was hospitalized and his left index fingertip was amputated.

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