# Amputations at Michels Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019099289` · 9/6/2019 · WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** Michels Corporation
- **Location:** In the Area Of, WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 19382
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was installing pipe casing, a shackle moved down and forwards, which caught the employee's middle finger on his gloved left hand. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingertip above the first knuckle.

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