# Amputations at DHI Roofing
> OSHA SIR `2018044056` · 4/27/2018 · LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** DHI Roofing
- **Location:** 2 Hunt Loop, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, 66043
- **NAICS:** 238160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hooking up a trailer to a truck. His left index finger was on the trailer tongue when the tongue dropped over the truck ball, catching and partially amputating his finger between the trailer and the truck.

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