# Amputations at Gibbs & Register, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20171010228` · 10/25/2017 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Grates
## Employer
- **Name:** Gibbs & Register, Inc
- **Location:** Orlando International Airport, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32827
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a wooden 2x4 between steel roadway grates when the employee's right hand was caught between two grates, fracturing two fingers and causing tendon damage and an amputation to the first knuckle of the right ring finger.

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