# Amputations at Alliance Steel Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019021311` · 2/5/2019 · BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Scrap metal
- **Secondary source:** Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Alliance Steel Corporation
- **Location:** 6499 W. 65th St., BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS, 60638
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing steel scrap with one hand into a container when a finger was pinched between a piece of scrap metal and the edge of a metal bar railing amputating the fingertip. The employee was wearing gloves at the time.

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