# Amputations at Gulf Machine Shop, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021054132` · 5/20/2021 · LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA
## 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 plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Metal plates, metal panels
## Employer
- **Name:** Gulf Machine Shop, Inc
- **Location:** 5337 E. Broad Street, LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA, 70615
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up a yard. Some debris fell into his boot. He sat down on some stacked steel plates to remove it; a plate rocked, and as he tried to brace himself his left ring fingertip was amputated between two of the plates.

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