# Amputations at Southtex Asphalt Services
> OSHA SIR `20231110732` · 11/21/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Southtex Asphalt Services
- **Location:** Sunset Gardens Apartments, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77051
- **NAICS:** 324121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping concrete material from the bed of a dump trailer. The employee went to lower the bed and their left hand became caught between the bed of the trailer and the frame of the dump trailer. The employee sustained amputations of the first digits of their index and middle fingers.

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