# Amputations at Charter Steel Company
> OSHA SIR `2021043248` · 4/19/2021 · SAUKVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Steel Company
- **Location:** 1658 Cold Springs Road, SAUKVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53080
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing elbow spacers between 4-inch by 4-inch, 40-foot-long billets. The tips of the employee's left pinky and ring fingers were crushed between an elbow and a billet, causing fingertip amputations.

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