# Amputations at Casco Bay Steel Structures, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043793` · 4/20/2018 · SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Casco Bay Steel Structures, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Wallace Avenue, SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE, 04106
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a steel beam that was sitting on a work bench when a chain from a crane (being operated by a different employee) hit the beam, knocking it off the bench. The beam fell on the employee's left foot, resulting in a foot amputation.

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