# Amputations at PACE CONSTRUCTION
> OSHA SIR `20181010185` · 10/2/2018 · WILLOW SPRINGS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Road grading and surfacing machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PACE CONSTRUCTION
- **Location:** 1760 State HWY AM, WILLOW SPRINGS, MISSOURI, 65793
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rotating an asphalt plant baghouse rotor when his right index fingertip was pinched between the rotor and the rotor brake. The fingertip was amputated.

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