# Amputations at Airgas, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023087090` · 8/4/2023 · STAR, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Airgas, Inc.
- **Location:** 217 ANDREW JACKSON CIRCLE, STAR, MISSISSIPPI, 39167
- **NAICS:** 325120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually moving blocks of dry ice when their right middle finger was pinched between a returning hydraulic arm and the railing around the conveyor belt system. The finger was partially amputated.

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