# Amputations at Hilco Electric
> OSHA SIR `2020054318` · 5/8/2020 · WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Hilco Electric
- **Location:** 109 Meadow Crest Dr., WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS, 75167
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting a power pole when his right thumb tip was caught in the boom tip on a digger truck, partially amputating the tip of his right thumb.

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