# Cuts, lacerations at Williams Brothers Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2022119841` · 11/8/2022 · ARLINGTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
- **Secondary source:** Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Williams Brothers Construction Company
- **Location:** 1024 North Watson Road, ARLINGTON, TEXAS, 76011
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on top of the flatbed trailer helping to secure a 72-inch earth drilling auger that had been placed by a co-worker. A separate, 96-inch earth drilling auger was placed with the square base over asphalt paving in order to rig the other auger through the lifting eyes and load it onto the flatbed trailer. The larger auger tipped over and the blades caught the employee's fingers against the pavement, resulting in a laceration to the right middle finger that required surgical amputation several days later.

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