# Amputations at Metaldyne Performance Group
> OSHA SIR `2016109474` · 10/7/2016 · SAINT MARYS, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
## Employer
- **Name:** Metaldyne Performance Group
- **Location:** 197 West Creek Road, SAINT MARYS, PENNSYLVANIA, 15857
- **NAICS:** 332117
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a drum dump station, dumping material into a tumbler.  He was putting a 55-pound steel drum onto the dump station when the drum fell. When he tried catching the drum, his right index finger was caught between the falling drum and the next drum in line to be dumped, amputating his fingertip.

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