# Amputations at Onpoint Industrial Services, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017043248` · 4/10/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Onpoint Industrial Services, LLC.
- **Location:** 9822 Laporte Freeway, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77017
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a forklift to lift a hopper/bin filled with approximately 950 lbs. of scrap metal. The employee's left hand fingers were caught between the forks and the bin while trying to release the waste into a dumpster resulting in the amputation of two fingertips.

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