# Amputations involving bone loss at METALPLATE GALVANIZING L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2024086996` · 8/1/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Beams and rails  metal
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors roller, wheel
## Employer
- **Name:** METALPLATE GALVANIZING L.P.
- **Location:** 10625 NEEDHAM ST., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77013
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving solar beams (250-pound I-beams) from a stack using a specially designed tool to lower one beam at a time onto rollers. Once lowered onto rollers, the beam could then be navigated through the remainder of production. A beam was lowered onto his right-hand fingers and the employee sustained amputations of their distal middle and ring fingers.

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