# Amputations at SGL Constructors
> OSHA SIR `2017109503` · 10/3/2017 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SGL Constructors
- **Location:** W I-4 & N South Street, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32815
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was waiting for a crane operator to unload an I-beam from a flatbed truck. His right hand was on the load. When the material reached the ground, his middle and ring fingertips were caught and amputated between two H piles.

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