# Amputations at Forterra Pipe and Precast, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017065127` · 6/5/2017 · PALATKA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Forterra Pipe and Precast, LLC
- **Location:** 245 Comfort Rd., PALATKA, FLORIDA, 32177
- **NAICS:** 327332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling on a V-belt for a cement auger screw when his left pinky fingertip was caught and amputated by the belt.

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