# Amputations at Seabreeze Recovery, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019077647` · 7/26/2019 · ANGLETON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Seed planting machinery
- **Secondary source:** Bulldozers
## Employer
- **Name:** Seabreeze Recovery, Inc.
- **Location:** Waste Connections Seabreeze Landfill, ANGLETON, TEXAS, 77515
- **NAICS:** 562212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a ratcheting lifting device to lift the tongue of the pull-behind hydro-seeder off of the hitch of the bull dozer. Once it was off the hitch, the tongue fell and landed on the injured employee's left foot. The employee sustained crushing injuries to the left foot and toes, as well as the amputation of the fourth toe.

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