# Amputations at 7 Site & Utility, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20231110619` · 11/17/2023 · SELMA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** 7 Site & Utility, LLC
- **Location:** 12985 Lower Seguin Rd., SELMA, TEXAS, 78154
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.

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