# Amputations at Vance Metal Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023065308` · 6/15/2023 · BESSEMER, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Floor, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Punch presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Vance Metal Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 5751 Durose Drive, BESSEMER, ALABAMA, 35022
- **NAICS:** 335999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was forming parts on a punch press. As he was removing parts from the tooling, he tripped, catching his left hand in the tooling. Two of the employee's fingers were partially amputated.

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