# Amputations at Texas Concrete Partners, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2018088008` · 8/6/2018 · VICTORIA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Concrete Partners, L.P.
- **Location:** 4702 North Vine Street, VICTORIA, TEXAS, 77904
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was applying initial stress on a concrete cable using a jack when either the cable snapped or the chuck that holds the cable in the jack failed, creating a pinch point. The employee's left thumb was caught in the pinch point, resulting in a surgical amputation to the thumb.

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