# Amputations at Airgas USA LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076332` · 7/10/2017 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Airgas USA LLC
- **Location:** 150 55th Street, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11220
- **NAICS:** 424720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a liquid nitrogen round cylinder onto a special delivery cart to hook the top of the cylinder into place when a cylinder moved and caught the employee's fingers between it and the cart. The employee's right third and fourth fingertips were amputated.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*