# Amputations at Ferguson
> OSHA SIR `2018088310` · 8/14/2018 · DENTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Mud
## Employer
- **Name:** Ferguson
- **Location:** 12612 Golden Rock Dr., DENTON, TEXAS, 76207
- **NAICS:** 423720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the lift gate on his truck with a controller. He slipped in the mud and fell, and the controller lowered the gate onto the tip of his thumb. The tip was amputated.

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