# Amputations at IWS Gas and Supply LTD
> OSHA SIR `2022032294` · 3/14/2022 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** IWS Gas and Supply LTD
- **Location:** Lyondell Bassell ( Primoris), LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 423840
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was returning a pallet to his truck after a delivery. While he was adjusting the pallet, which weighed 100-200 pounds, it moved and caught his right little finger against the truck's pallet-securing device. The tip of his little finger was amputated and he suffered a nailbed avulsion.

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