# Amputations at Pierce Construction & Maintenance
> OSHA SIR `2021043362` · 4/22/2021 · ROANOKE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by other person
- **Source:** Hammers, except sledge-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Pierce Construction & Maintenance
- **Location:** Pole Mill Site, ROANOKE, ALABAMA, 36274
- **NAICS:** 236116
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding a stake for concrete molding while a co-worker was driving the stake with a 10-pound hammer. The employee thought the co-worker was finished and grabbed the top of the stake to assist himself up from a kneeling/bending position when the hammer struck the end of the employee's right-hand pinky finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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