# Amputations at Liebovich Steel and Aluminum Kaukauna
> OSHA SIR `2018032345` · 3/8/2018 · CURTISS, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Liebovich Steel and Aluminum Kaukauna
- **Location:** W2740 Oak Rd, CURTISS, WISCONSIN, 54422
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a flatbed truck moving steel dunnage for a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) to unload when the PIV operator came forward unexpectedly and the steel shifted, catching the employee's right ring finger. The finger was partially amputated.

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