# Amputations at Omaha Steel Castings Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023010935` · 1/30/2023 · WAHOO, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
- **Source:** Buckets, baskets, pails
- **Secondary source:** Buckets, baskets, pails
## Employer
- **Name:** Omaha Steel Castings Company, LLC
- **Location:** 921 East 12th Street, WAHOO, NEBRASKA, 68066
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was staging heat treat baskets on a roller line so they could be picked up by a hoister crane. The employee pushed a basket away from another basket, and it rolled back and struck the employee, catching his right ring finger between the two baskets. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

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