# Amputations at Vargas Sheet Metal
> OSHA SIR `2023054131` · 5/8/2023 · SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone
- **Source:** Pickup truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Vargas Sheet Metal
- **Location:** 133 Montgomery St., SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31401
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A construction employee was working in a barricaded work zone, unloading a work truck, when a pickup truck crashed through the construction fence and struck the employee. The employee was pinned to a nearby semi-trailer and sustained a right lower leg amputation, left knee fracture, internal bleeding, and damage to the kidney and pancreas.

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