# Amputations at Barker Steel LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020065487` · 6/12/2020 · BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Crowbars
- **Secondary source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Barker Steel LLC
- **Location:** 1700 Riverside Drive, BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 18015
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was operating a shear to cut rebar. The employee was removing two pieces of rebar from the gauge table when his finger was pinched between a piece of rebar, the prybar he was using, and the gauge table. This resulted in surgical amputation of the right middle fingertip, just below the fingernail.

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