# Amputations at WL Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020087756` · 8/17/2020 · AURORA, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** WL Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** E. 6th Prkwy and E470, AURORA, COLORADO, 80018
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering the trailer's support arm to the hitch on a truck and amputated the left ring and middle fingers.

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