# Amputations at Socagee Services Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023021182` · 2/6/2023 · PELICAN, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Socagee Services Inc
- **Location:** 2665 Cross Road, PELICAN, LOUISIANA, 71063
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spotting a forklift as it moved structural steel beams at a construction site. The forklift set two of the beams down on cribbing. The employee was separating the beams when one of them shifted; the employee's right middle finger was caught between the two flanges on the beam, and the fingertip was amputated.

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