# Amputations at EAST TEXAS PRECAST CO.
> OSHA SIR `2020098527` · 9/8/2020 · HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** EAST TEXAS PRECAST CO.
- **Location:** 44855 OLD HOUSTON HWY., HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS, 77445
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clipping bands to cables which involves partially hoisting the cables with a crane. During the hoist, the employee's left hand was pinched between the cables and a steel pin resulting in a partial amputation to the left thumb.

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