# Amputations at Unipres Alabama, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019076842` · 7/8/2019 · STEELE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Unipres Alabama, Inc.
- **Location:** 990 Duncan Farms Road, STEELE, ALABAMA, 35987
- **NAICS:** 336399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting the elevator chain of a 1,200-ton press to place on a gear. The counterweight fell and the employee's left middle finger was caught in the elevator chain, suffering an amputation/crushing injury to the fingertip.

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