# Amputations at Service Recycling
> OSHA SIR `2017043863` · 4/27/2017 · JOPLIN, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Service Recycling
- **Location:** 1015 Illinois Avenue, JOPLIN, MISSOURI, 64801
- **NAICS:** 325612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading steel beams when two of his fingers were smashed and amputated between two beams.

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