# Amputations at Boose Aluminum Foundry Company, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017065160` · 6/6/2017 · REAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Girders, beams, structural steel
## Employer
- **Name:** Boose Aluminum Foundry Company, Incorporated
- **Location:** 77 North Reamstown Road, REAMSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17567
- **NAICS:** 331524
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a sand mixing head when his left hand was crushed between the mixing head and a building support beam. His left index finger was partially amputated.

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