# Amputations at Marathon Equipment Company
> OSHA SIR `2023043418` · 4/17/2023 · VERNON, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Marathon Equipment Company
- **Location:** 909 County Road 9 S, VERNON, ALABAMA, 35592
- **NAICS:** 333318
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lining up 2-inch pieces of bar stock for clamping when their right index finger was caught between the bar stock. The employee sustained a degloving injury that resulted in medical amputation of the right index finger at the distal joint.

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