# Amputations at Brace Integrated Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018054350` · 5/4/2018 · KARNES CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
## Employer
- **Name:** Brace Integrated Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 1860 FM 99, KARNES CITY, TEXAS, 78118
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 4, 2018, an employee started to build a scaffold when the vertical scaffold leg fell and hit the cross braces. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the cross braces and the vertical scaffold leg. His left ring fingertip was amputated (no bone loss).

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