# Amputations at Luvata Waterbury, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023043312` · 4/13/2023 · WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Luvata Waterbury, Inc.
- **Location:** 2121 Thomaston Avenue, WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, 06704
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a gantry crane to move a copper cylinder across a room. As the employee went to stop the cylinder from swaying, the cylinder shifted on its holder and the employee's left little fingertip was crushed between the metal cylinder and the support at the bottom, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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