# Amputations at Highway Intelligent Traffic Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018055267` · 5/30/2018 · CEDAR HILL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Highway Intelligent Traffic Inc
- **Location:** 1500 High Meadows Way, CEDAR HILL, TEXAS, 75104
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to repair the winch line on a crane. The cable on the winch got twisted. The injured employee was on the base of the boom and was holding the cable from an access hole when the boom retracted all the way back smashing his right middle finger. The fingertip was amputated.

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