# Amputations at Blattner Energy
> OSHA SIR `2018088911` · 8/28/2018 · ELDORADO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Blattner Energy
- **Location:** 1440 C.R. 431, ELDORADO, TEXAS, 76936
- **NAICS:** 335929
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing an electrical box when the employee's foot was caught between a free spinning turbine and the counterweight and main bearing of a piece of machinery, causing the amputation of five toes.

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