# Amputations at The Gallegos Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20190910009` · 9/24/2019 · GYPSUM, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Stone, marble, granite slabs
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** The Gallegos Corporation
- **Location:** 1097 Spring Creek Road, GYPSUM, COLORADO, 81637
- **NAICS:** 423320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving stone slabs from a forklift to a stacked pile of stone in a yard. The slabs began sliding off the forklift supports, and the employee's fingers were pinched between two of them. The fingertips were torn off, and the fingers were crushed and torn open from the fingernail about halfway down the fingers; no bone was involved.

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