# Amputations at Bechtel Construction Services
> OSHA SIR `2017032653` · 3/22/2017 · GREGORY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Racks-garment and other
- **Secondary source:** Pallet jack-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Bechtel Construction Services
- **Location:** 2822 La Quinta Road, GREGORY, TEXAS, 78359
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a loaded scaffold rack onto a pallet jack and pinched his right thumb between the pallet jack handle and the pipe spool resulting in amputation of the thumb.

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