# Amputations at Tropical Shipping USA, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181111688` · 11/13/2018 · RIVIERA BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** Tropical Shipping USA, LLC
- **Location:** 5 East 11th St., RIVIERA BEACH, FLORIDA, 33404
- **NAICS:** 483111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to lift a flatrack and had placed his hand on the cable to keep the tension when the tension cable amputated his right ring fingertip.

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