# Amputations at Austin Bridge & Road Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023109081` · 10/2/2023 · PERRIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Bridge & Road Inc
- **Location:** 101 West Hackley Street, PERRIN, TEXAS, 76486
- **NAICS:** 324121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing an extension into a concrete cylinder testing machine. When the employee loosened the set screw, the top of the cylinder dropped approximately 20 inches, crushing the employee's left index finger and resulting in amputation.

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