# Amputations at Reliance Metal Center
> OSHA SIR `2020109787` · 10/14/2020 · COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Reliance Metal Center
- **Location:** 3855 Silica Drive, COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, 80910
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting a load to a crane when his left ring finger was crushed by the load chain resulting in medical amputation.

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