# Amputations involving bone loss at GSM Metals, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065637` · 6/12/2025 · CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND
## 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:** Shearing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** GSM Metals, Inc.
- **Location:** 40 Kenney Drive, CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND, 02920
- **NAICS:** 331491
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a metal square on a hydraulic shear when his left hand got caught between the metal and the shear block. The employee's middle finger was amputated.

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