# Amputations at E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032771` · 3/27/2017 · AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
- **Location:** Windsor Springs Road, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, 30901
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee hooked up a chain sling to a section of I-beam so a bridge crew could move it with a crane. He was guiding the material as the crane moved it when the chain sling slid and allowed the beam to roll. His right index fingertip was then caught and amputated between the chain and I-beam.

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