# Amputations at Garcia Gonzales Construction, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017087601` · 8/9/2017 · BLOOMFIELD, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
## Employer
- **Name:** Garcia Gonzales Construction, LLC
- **Location:** 54080 NE-84, BLOOMFIELD, NEBRASKA, 68718
- **NAICS:** 238120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting a steel beam while working out of an aerial lift when the beam leaned against the lift and pinched his left hand between it and the top rail of the man basket. His middle finger was amputated to the first knuckle.

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