# Amputations involving bone loss at Enerquip LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087456` · 8/14/2024 · BEGGS, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged or detached object(s)
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
- **Secondary source:** Heating and cooking machinery, appliances  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Enerquip LLC
- **Location:** 1585 Highway 16, BEGGS, OKLAHOMA, 74421
- **NAICS:** 332410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling a 12-foot long 30-inch shell and tube heat exchanger. The pieces are put together horizontally, and the two flanges were being placed on the ends using a 1.5-ton come-along on each side. The flange was too large to fit into the shell, so the shell was heated to expand it. A lug that the come-along was attached to then broke, causing the hook of the come-along to fly off and strike the employee s left index finger while it was resting on a sawhorse. The middle phalanx of the index finger suffered a displaced/open fracture and required surgical amputation.

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