# Amputations at Byers Industrial Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023076355` · 7/17/2023 · FRANKLINVILLE, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Byers Industrial Services, LLC
- **Location:** 1100 Grant Ave, FRANKLINVILLE, NEW JERSEY, 08322
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping load a truck for delivery. He was picking up a bottle of argon weighing 125 to 155 pounds and lost his balance. The employee fell and the bottle landed on his hand, fracturing the index, middle, and ring fingers and amputating a fingertip.

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