# Amputations at Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098629` · 9/8/2017 · LA VILLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Chisels-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc.
- **Location:** 1300 Highway 107, LA VILLA, TEXAS, 78562
- **NAICS:** 311311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pneumatic chisel to dig though asphalt when the chisel became stuck. He was trying to unstick it when the chisel came loose and caught his right pinky finger between it and the wall, amputating the fingertip.

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