# Amputations at GORBEL, INC., ALABAMA DIVISION
> OSHA SIR `2021043533` · 4/29/2021 · PELL CITY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** GORBEL, INC., ALABAMA DIVISION
- **Location:** 600 GARDNER DRIVE, PELL CITY, ALABAMA, 35125
- **NAICS:** 333923
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting a shipper with preparing a workstation crane and its components for shipment. The crane measured 390 inches long and 12 inches high. The employee was helping the shipper manually turn a bridge on skids from a vertical position to a horizontal position when the bridge struck the tip of their left middle finger, pinching it between the skid and the bridge. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation without bone loss.

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