# Amputations at Superior Rigging & Erecting Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021021091` · 2/6/2021 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Superior Rigging & Erecting Company Inc.
- **Location:** 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33316
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to move a steel beam with a hoist. The employee's left ring and middle fingers were pinched when a hook on the hoist slipped, resulting in an amputation.

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