# Amputations at Indiana Industrial Services
> OSHA SIR `2021086957` · 8/16/2021 · LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Measuring handtools, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Racks-garment and other
## Employer
- **Name:** Indiana Industrial Services
- **Location:** 9400 Leavenworth Rd, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, 66043
- **NAICS:** 488991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leveling and anchoring racking uprights using a plumb bob level (attached magnetically to the upright about 3 feet above the ground). The employee was down on the ground tapping the foot of an upright into place with a small sledgehammer when the plumb bob level detached from the upright and fell/slid down, amputating his left index fingertip just past the last knuckle.

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