# Amputations at EasTex Tower LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018088628` · 8/21/2018 · CORTEZ, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** EasTex Tower LLC
- **Location:** 9045 Road 27, CORTEZ, COLORADO, 81321
- **NAICS:** 517919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving steel from a flatbed trailer when the steel flipped off dunnage on the trailer and rolled onto his right ring finger. The finger was pinched between the steel and the trailer, causing the amputation of the fingertip (with no bone loss).

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