# Amputations at AVAdek Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023087570` · 8/18/2023 · CHANNELVIEW, 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:** Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
- **Secondary source:** Structures and surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AVAdek Inc.
- **Location:** 16150 2nd St, CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS, 77530
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a scissor lift to install an overhead canopy onto a structure when their left thumb got caught between the scissor lift and the structure, resulting in an amputation.

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