# Amputations at Viking Industrial Painting LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021544` · 2/17/2023 · FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Viking Industrial Painting LLC
- **Location:** 8399 McClure Dr, FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, 72916
- **NAICS:** 238320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rigging equipment to be placed on the tank roof. While setting up containment rigging, the steel outriggers slipped from the employee's hand and slammed on top of his finger, crushing it against the exterior tank roof. The employee sustained a crush injury to the left index fingertip and nail bed damage that resulted in an amputation.

Note to coder- amputation

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