# Amputations at MAGNATECH, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019033143` · 3/26/2019 · YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MAGNATECH, INC.
- **Location:** 821 BEV ROAD, YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, 44512
- **NAICS:** 531120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a 72-inch industrial magnet (weighing 8,460 pounds) on steel sawhorses. The employee was repositioning the sawhorses while the load was suspended from a crane. A weld securing the magnet broke. The magnet fell on the employee's left index finger, crushing it against the sawhorse. The finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

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