# Amputations involving bone loss at V & S TAUNTON GALVANIZING, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025088317` · 8/20/2025 · TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object handled by person  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Panels, sheets, plates  metal
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** V & S TAUNTON GALVANIZING, LLC
- **Location:** 585 John Hancock Road, TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02780
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stacking steel grating. The grating moved and their right ring finger got caught between grating. The last digit of the ring finger was amputated.

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