# Amputations at Navistar Defense
> OSHA SIR `2017076994` · 7/26/2017 · WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Metal plates, metal panels
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Navistar Defense
- **Location:** 901 East Half Mile Street, WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI, 39773
- **NAICS:** 336992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to catch a steel plate weighing approximately 45 pounds as it fell from a cart when his left pinky finger was caught and partially amputated in an open hole on the plate.

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