# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at U S Steel Irvin Works
> OSHA SIR `2024021079` · 2/4/2024 · WEST MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Wheel chocks, blocks
- **Secondary source:** Machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** U S Steel Irvin Works
- **Location:** 1268 Camp Hollow Road, WEST MIFFLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, 15122
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inserting a block on a piece of equipment so he could install a bearing. The backup chock shifted and pinched the employee's index finger against the block he was installing. The employee sustained an amputation to the right index fingertip.

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