# Amputations at CUST-O-FAB Specialty Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021043163` · 4/15/2021 · LAUREL, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Turning handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** CUST-O-FAB Specialty Services, LLC
- **Location:** 803 HWY 212 S, LAUREL, MONTANA, 59044
- **NAICS:** 332410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a co-worker were loosening nuts and bolts on a 24-inch, 300-pound flange with hydraulic torque equipment and a reaction arm. The hydraulic torque equipment was not functioning due to pump issues. The co-worker went to inspect it when the pump kicked on and engaged the torquing equipment. The torquing equipment moved the reaction arm, which struck the employee's right-hand index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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