# Amputations at Tarsco Bolted
> OSHA SIR `2015108034` · 10/27/2015 · QUINTANA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Tarsco Bolted
- **Location:** 615 Lamar, QUINTANA, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 332420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing building jacks from a bolted water tank. He was lowering sections of jacks and as he pulled the pin on the jack his left hand became pinned between two jacks resulting in the amputation of the left hand index and middle fingers.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*