# Amputations at Lightning Foundations Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032404` · 3/16/2023 · FAIRMONT, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
## Employer
- **Name:** Lightning Foundations Inc.
- **Location:** 4 Burress Road, FAIRMONT, NEBRASKA, 68354
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to stabilize drilling equipment when their fingers were crushed between the auger and auger guide on the drilling rig. The employee sustained crush injuries to the left middle and ring fingers that resulted in partial amputations and hospitalization.

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