# Amputations at Mississippi Steel Processing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016109501` · 10/8/2016 · COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Bundles, bales
- **Secondary source:** Dimensional lumber: 2x4, 2x3, etc.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mississippi Steel Processing LLC
- **Location:** 400 North Steel Street, COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI, 39701
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to square a bundle of steel sheets using a 4X4 piece of wood up against an I-beam. The sheets caught the employee's left little finger, removing flesh from the knuckle to the fingertip. The fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

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