# Amputations at PRODUCTION CASTINGS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20191111703` · 11/11/2019 · FENTON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** PRODUCTION CASTINGS, INC.
- **Location:** 1410 West Lark, FENTON, MISSOURI, 63026
- **NAICS:** 331523
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping someone roll a steel tie bar onto a cart when the tie bar fell and the employee attempted to catch it. The tie bar rolled on top of the employee's left ring and middle fingers, crushing them and resulting in a partial traumatic amputation of the left middle finger through the phalanx.

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