# Amputations at Anvil Craft Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019065570` · 6/3/2019 · EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Building materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Anvil Craft Corporation
- **Location:** 1005 Aspen St, EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18042
- **NAICS:** 332323
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A welder was placing a long piece of metal (18 ft. x 1 ft. x 2 in.) on a table in preparation for welding when the metal slipped from his hand and smashed his left thumb between the piece of metal and the table. The employee was hospitalized for a possible left thumb tip amputation.

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