# Amputations at Samuel Son & Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019055452` · 5/30/2019 · IUKA, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Rollers
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Samuel Son & Company Inc.
- **Location:** 26 County Road 351, IUKA, MISSISSIPPI, 38852
- **NAICS:** 333513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were trying to move a 62-foot-long, 2,000-pound part over on a conveyor table. On the third attempt, the part fell off the conveyor and landed on one employee's left foot. The employee suffered two broken toes and was hospitalized; the little toe was medically amputated.

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