# Cuts, lacerations at Dixie Iron Works, LTD.
> OSHA SIR `2017010755` · 1/24/2017 · ALICE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Dixie Iron Works, LTD.
- **Location:** 400 COMMERCE, ALICE, TEXAS, 78332
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up steel bars in the holding area to move to another area.  The bars were strapped on one end where his hand was and one of the bars moved pinching his right pinky finger resulting in a split of the fingernail to the bone.

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