# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Industrial Mechanical, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010901` · 1/29/2024 · WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
- **Secondary source:** Hoppers  except confined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Industrial Mechanical, Inc.
- **Location:** 1241 Greensboro Highway, WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, 30677
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee drove a forklift equipped with a tilt-hopper over to a roll-off dumpster to dump concrete and dirt from a demolition project. The employee got off the forklift and released the lever on the tilt-hopper. The employee's left hand got caught between the tilt-hopper and the roll-off dumpster resulting in a partial amputation to the middle finger and loss of skin from the pad of the ring finger.

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