# Amputations at Blue Origin Texas LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2023010845` · 1/26/2023 · VAN HORN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Gates
## Employer
- **Name:** Blue Origin Texas LLC.
- **Location:** 35961 State Highway 54, VAN HORN, TEXAS, 79855
- **NAICS:** 336414
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with a crew installing metal plates and a holder on a 26-foot slide gate. As the employee was pulling on the steel gate, which weighed approximately 800 pounds, the gate was pulled beyond the back rollers holding it in position, which caused the gate to pivot and fall onto the employee's foot. The employee sustained fractures on the third, fourth, and fifth metatarsals on their right foot, and an amputation of the right fourth toe.

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