# Amputations at Bridge Fabrication Holdings, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015031637` · 3/31/2015 · PALATKA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Sheet metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Bridge Fabrication Holdings, LLC
- **Location:** 211 Comfort Road, PALATKA, FLORIDA, 32177
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a sheet of steel (300 lbs.) with an overhead hoist. The employee was using a magnet to move the metal from the grinding area to the finished stack. When the sheet was over the finished pile of sheets, the magnet released; the sheet fell on his hand, crushing the left middle and ring fingers. He was hospitalized.

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