# Amputations involving bone loss at VMC Specialty Alloys LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054418` · 5/20/2024 · ADAIRSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Cranes gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Vehicle and machine front attachments
## Employer
- **Name:** VMC Specialty Alloys LLC
- **Location:** 800 Martin Luther King Dr, ADAIRSVILLE, GEORGIA, 30103
- **NAICS:** 331314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 20, 2024, an employee was placing ingot tongs onto an aluminum ingot to lift it from a casting pit using an overhead crane. The employee placed his right hand on the ingot tongs to position them when the tongs engaged causing a compound fracture to their right index finger. This resulted in amputation of the finger at the first joint.

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