# Amputations at Engineered Floors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020032161` · 3/6/2020 · BRIDGEPORT, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Engineered Floors, LLC
- **Location:** 236 EF Flooring Avenue, BRIDGEPORT, ALABAMA, 35740
- **NAICS:** 313110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a brass bushing in a ring bearing for a beam. A forklift was lowering the beam while the employee was manually adjusting the position of the bushing. The injured employee's left ring finger was crushed by the beam resulting in surgical amputation.

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