# Amputations at Delmar Systems, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2020021120` · 2/4/2020 · GOLDEN MEADOW, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate
- **Source:** Gates
## Employer
- **Name:** Delmar Systems, Inc
- **Location:** 558 Dudley Bernard Rd., GOLDEN MEADOW, LOUISIANA, 70357
- **NAICS:** 333132
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was returning to work from lunch. While talking to another employee on the other side of a closing access gate, the employee leaned against the gate before it completely stopped. His left hand was caught in the top roll bar of the gate, crushing the left fourth digit and requiring an amputation of the tip.

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