# Amputations at Martin Marrieta
> OSHA SIR `2016088161` · 8/31/2016 · FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Martin Marrieta
- **Location:** 1800 North Taft Road, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, 80521
- **NAICS:** 324121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hooking up a trailer with a port-a-potty on it to a truck hitch. As the employee manually lifted the trailer bed to hook it to the truck hitch, the employee dropped the bed and pinched his middle finger on the block resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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