# Amputations at Golden Spread Redi-Mix, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016042950` · 4/8/2016 · FRIONA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine, tool, and electric parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Golden Spread Redi-Mix, Inc.
- **Location:** 2025 CR B, FRIONA, TEXAS, 79035
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was greasing a bearing and could not get the grease to flow. When he put his finger on the fitting to get the grease to flow, other workers moved the motor, which amputated his right middle fingertip.

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