# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Scrap Metal Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024065709` · 6/26/2024 · BLUE ISLAND, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Dies, molds, patterns
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Scrap Metal Services LLC
- **Location:** 3000 W. 139th Street, BLUE ISLAND, ILLINOIS, 60406
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On June 26, 2024, an employee was using a pry bar to flip an aluminum die. The pry bar slipped out and the die crushed the employee's right ring finger, which resulted in a partial fingertip amputation.

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