# Amputations at Arconic Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171211445` · 12/1/2017 · NILES, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Arconic Inc.
- **Location:** 1000 Warren Avenue, NILES, OHIO, 44446
- **NAICS:** 332112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a lifter to lift a rack of steel sheets when the lifter caught the edge of a hot block. The hot block then kicked toward the employee's left hand, pinching it between the hot block and lifter body. The employee's ring fingertip was partially amputated.

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