# Amputations at Mourik Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023021114` · 2/3/2023 · PASADENA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Hoses
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mourik Inc.
- **Location:** 9502 Bayport, PASADENA, TEXAS, 77507
- **NAICS:** 325180
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repositioning a vacuum hose at a worksite. The hose was being lowered to the ground from scaffold bracing when it caught the employee's left hand against the horizontal scaffold bracing, resulting in a partial amputation to the little finger.

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