# Amputations at Turner Industries Group, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017043351` · 4/13/2017 · BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
## Employer
- **Name:** Turner Industries Group, LLC
- **Location:** 8687 UNITED PLAZA BLVD., BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, 70809
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was weighing 55-gallon drums that were on a pallet next to a scale. When he tried to rotate a drum off the pallet and onto the scale, his right thumb was pinched between two drums, amputating the thumb tip.

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