# Amputations at Industrial Container Services - AL, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018055064` · 5/23/2018 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
## Employer
- **Name:** Industrial Container Services - AL, LLC
- **Location:** 950 Nova Chemicals Blvd., DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 423840
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading  steel drums from a tractor trailer at a customer's site when a drum tipped over. He attempted to catch the drum and his right ring finger was caught between the ring/bolts on two drums, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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