# Amputations at Pro Construction Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019076681` · 7/2/2019 · BROUSSARD, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Punch presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Pro Construction Inc.
- **Location:** Schuyler Maritime, BROUSSARD, LOUISIANA, 70518
- **NAICS:** 561311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping another employee (the operator) operate a press machine. The employee was feeding rubber into the press machine, which punches 1-inch-diameter holes in the rubber, when the punch came down and amputated his fourth and fifth fingers.

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