# Amputations at Omaha Steel Castings Co LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181011115` · 10/28/2018 · WAHOO, NEBRASKA
## 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:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Omaha Steel Castings Co LLC
- **Location:** 921 E 12th St., WAHOO, NEBRASKA, 68066
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a quench tank slag barrel into a dumpster when he grabbed the barrel and it slipped, creating a pinch point on the barrel and self-tipping hopper that amputated the distal phalanges on his right middle and ring fingers.

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