# Amputations at Primetals Technologies USA LLC
> OSHA SIR `20231110415` · 11/11/2023 · CORTLAND, OHIO
## 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:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Primetals Technologies USA LLC
- **Location:** 3650 Warren Meadville Rd., CORTLAND, OHIO, 44410
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an overhead crane to lift a bottom scraper (weighing over 1,200 pounds) off a machine table for fabrication purposes. While being lifted, the scraper rotated 90 degrees (from vertical to horizontal) and the employee's left hand was caught between the scraper and the nylon lifting straps. The left middle finger was partially amputated.

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