# Amputations at COASTAL MECHANICAL SERVICES, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022098313` · 9/20/2022 · MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** COASTAL MECHANICAL SERVICES, LLC
- **Location:** Melbourne Regional Airport One Air Terminal PKWY STE200, MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, 32901
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling a gantry crane. The employee placed his left middle finger in a hole of the steel frame of the leg base when a co-worker lifted the attached leg assembly, which caught the employee's finger and resulted in a fingertip amputation and the loss of the fingernail.

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