# Amputations at Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018043342` · 4/7/2018 · THEODORE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC
- **Location:** 4201 Evonik Road, THEODORE, ALABAMA, 36582
- **NAICS:** 561210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a hopper on a forklift attachment. The attachment dumped the load and was returning to the upright position at the same time that the employee's left index finger was in a pinch point position. The employee's left index finger was amputated to the first knuckle.

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