# Amputations at Anvil Attachments
> OSHA SIR `2017098615` · 9/7/2017 · SLAUGHTER, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Turning handtools-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Anvil Attachments
- **Location:** 261 Highway 19, SLAUGHTER, LOUISIANA, 70777
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disassembling a cylinder head with a pneumatic torque wrench when the wrench pinched his left index finger, crushing and amputating the fingertip.

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