# Amputations at SGS Petroleum Service Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019032398` · 3/5/2019 · PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
- **Secondary source:** Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
## Employer
- **Name:** SGS Petroleum Service Corporation
- **Location:** Dow Chemical Company, PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA, 70764
- **NAICS:** 325188
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting railcars. The employee's right foot/ankle was caught between the railcar connection devices, causing crushing injuries that required hospitalization and surgical amputation.

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