# Amputations at Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021021264` · 2/11/2021 · KANSAS CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cages, cage racks
- **Secondary source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
- **Location:** 4232 Kansas Ave, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, 66106
- **NAICS:** 221310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was offloading vessels from a truck when the employee's right pinky finger was caught between a vessel and metal cage, resulting in a fingertip avulsion and partial amputation.

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