# Amputations at Altamont Company
> OSHA SIR `2021109406` · 10/7/2021 · THOMASBORO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Altamont Company
- **Location:** 901 N Church Street, THOMASBORO, ILLINOIS, 61878
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were rotating a machine component (a heavy, steel machine part roughly in the shape of a rectangular bar) so it could be reinstalled. As they used a die cart lift to move the part from blocks to the machine table surface, the part continued to turn quickly; a protruding bolt caught the tip of one employee's left index finger against the steel work surface. About 4-5 millimeters of the finger were amputated.

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