# Amputations at Kloeckner Metals Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018010019` · 1/2/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kloeckner Metals Corporation
- **Location:** 4940 W. Bloomingdale Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 2, 2018, an employee was operating a crane to move a scrap bin to a dock when the scrap bin struck some steel and began to rotate. As the employee attempted to stop the bin from rotating, the employee's pinky finger became caught between the scrap bin and a table machine, resulting in an amputation.

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