# Amputations at Wanzek Construction
> OSHA SIR `20191212614` · 12/8/2019 · RIO GRANDE CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Wanzek Construction
- **Location:** 6625 N. FM 755, RIO GRANDE CITY, TEXAS, 78582
- **NAICS:** 221115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attaching a trailer tongue to a truck hitch when his left index finger was caught between the trailer tongue and truck hitch, amputating it at the nailbed.

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