# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Welch Equipment Company
> OSHA SIR `2024099038` · 9/27/2024 · DENVER, COLORADO
## 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:** Beams and rails  metal
- **Secondary source:** Beams and rails  metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Welch Equipment Company
- **Location:** 5400 Pecos Street, DENVER, COLORADO, 80221
- **NAICS:** 811118
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stacking uprights at a customer location. While lowering a steel beam, he lost footing and his left little fingertip was caught and amputated between two steel beams.

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