# Amputations at Taminco US LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023087047` · 8/3/2023 · PACE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Passenger van
## Employer
- **Name:** Taminco US LLC
- **Location:** 4575 US 90, PACE, FLORIDA, 32571
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were connecting a rescue trailer to the rescue van for training. The injured employee was pushing on the trailer coupler to align it when their finger slipped under the coupler and was pinched between it and the trailer hitch ball. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

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