# Amputations at K&R Operating LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2022054631` · 5/27/2022 · ELYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** K&R Operating LLC.
- **Location:** Elysburg Compressor Station, ELYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17824
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a nut on the main bearing in preparation to change out the main bearings on an engine. An engine main cap fell on his right thumb causing a crush injury that required medical amputation of the thumb to just behind the thumbnail.

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